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Article #75Re: Help to compare documents
From: doreen bird
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:14
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:14
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On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:36:35 +0100, Thomas Lauer wrote:> doreen bird <doreen@bird.com> wrote: > >> I often merge 3 - 4 similar plain text documents into one and need to >> eliminate any duplicate text. Is there a way to compare all 3 or 4 >> documents for duplicate text at the same time? The solution must be cheap. > > http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/ > > This is the best visual diff-and-merge utility I've ever used. Supports > two-way merge (ie original, your changes) or three-way merge (ie > original, their changes, your changes). Also can compare and recurse > down directories. Portable. Windows and Linux versions are available. > > From its website: > >> KDiff3 is a program that >> >> * compares or merges two or three text input files or directories, >> * shows the differences line by line and character by character (!), >> * provides an automatic merge-facility and >> * an integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts, >> * supports Unicode, UTF-8 and other codecs, autodetection via byte-order-mark "BOM" >> * supports KIO on KDE (allows accessing ftp, sftp, fish, smb etc.), >> * Printing of differences, >> * Manual alignment of lines, >> * Automatic merging of version control history ($Log$), >> * and has an intuitive graphical user interface. >> * KDE-Konqueror service menu plugin >> * It looks complicated but I'll get a tutorial. Thank you. -- Great to be back in transcription after such a long time
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