Re: Help to compare documents

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From: Bert Hyman
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:03

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In news:1g4081duf6a96.dlg@www.doreenbird.co.uk 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. 

The U*ix utility "diff3" can compare (and merge) three files. I've never
used it myself, I just know of its existence. 

If you're using some flavor of Windows, there are free Windows ports of
it and other U*ix utilites available. 

http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

and other places.

-- 
Bert Hyman	St. Paul, MN	bert@iphouse.com

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