Q: program to compare two text files

[Fürstbischof]

I remember reading here(?) in this forum that there is a program available which can be used to compare two text files (line by line) and to detect the changes which have been made. Given the absence of a proper changelog of the latest beta it's nearly impossible to discover the changes made to e.g. the larger event files. It'd be rather helpful to have such a program instead of manually comparing these files line by line.

 

[vonCarstein1984]

that might be what you are looking for
http://www.grigsoft.com/wincmp3.htm

regards vonCarstein

edit: I have no idea if there are any restrictions to an unregistered version because I have a licensed version...

 

[eleinvisible]

On *nix systems there is diff. On Windows there is WinMerge

 

[Fürstbischof]

Thank you very much for your answers.

I'll look this weekend more closely at both and maybe even make a first test run.

 

[Fürstbischof]

On *nix systems there is diff. On Windows there is WinMerge

Many thanks for your advice, winmerge turned out to be the program which I was looking for.

It's easy to use and the presentation of the discovered differences is quite useful.