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Home > Forums > Programmers > Development Methodologies and Architecture > Code Reuse & Migration Forum

File Comparing Utility?

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Easy (Programmer)

24 Jun 99 21:11

Does anyone have any recommendations for a utility (preferably very cheap) that compares text files? Ideally, I'd like a vertical split screen to compare ASCII text files, highlighting differences, etc... I'm doing a lot of modifications to some ancient QBASIC spaghetti code (yes, this business is running on QBASIC) and I need something quick. Thanks, Marc at MKB400@aol.com

Vienna (Programmer)

25 Jun 99 11:12

I am going to make a suggestion that you may have already tried, have you checked some of the freeware/shareware sites? Such as shareware.com and ferretsoft.com. Then you can search for the utility you are looking for.

Sorry can't be of more help.

akbryer (Programmer)

25 Jun 99 13:11

Word Processing programs like Word have built in Compare features.

AKBryer

LennartO (Programmer)

9 Aug 99 9:09

A shareware product called Beyond Compare is the best you can ever find. I routinely compare source code for changes as well as trace files from testing, the latter frequently larger than 200' lines. It's got colour coding, you can copy from one half of the window to the other, etc.

It is simply great. You can find it at

www.scootersoftware.com

Try it out, then go by it. The producers deserve to get money for this product.

ssingh (Programmer)

31 Mar 00 6:57

Visual Source Safe is the best product for your problem

Thanx
Siddhartha Singh
ssingh@aztecsoft.com

carpeliam (Programmer)

3 Apr 00 5:29

I haven't tried this out, but it's supposed to be good... Araxis Merge 2000 Beta...
http://betanews.efront.com/article.php3?sid=954531956

Liam Morley
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