At 17:46 on 5 January, Schwarz, Michael, MDVT9056 wrote:
> I am looking for a tool to compare A N D merge two files, e.g. two
> F90-sources.
> In the past we used a commercial tool of hp called "softbench". This package
> includes a program "softcom", which gives a side-by-side view of the two
> files.
> Then you can merge the two files into a new one. Thereby you can decide for
> every line whether to use the left, the right or both lines. This is very
> helpful to maintain a program by two or more persons in parallel.
> Unfortunately hp does not support softbench for F90 so we no longer use this
> tool.
>
> Does anybody know a tool which does a some similar job ? Or give me any help
> or hint ?
Xemacs provides this (from the menubar,
Tools -> Compare -> Two Files..., for example) and it highlights the
differing regions for you so that you don't have to look at every
line. I don't know how I ever managed without it.
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