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Re: Help to compare documents

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From: doreen bird
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.



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From: doreen bird <doreen@bird.com>
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