Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 08:14:55 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: VERSTEEGH M <M DOT Versteegh AT cpedu DOT rug DOT nl>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: filecompare utility
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On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, VERSTEEGH M wrote:

>     I've written a handy filecompare utility.
>     How it works:
>         Two files can be displayed next to eachother, the common 
> lines will be colored green, and the different ones will be white
> also, when you scroll up and down, the program will keep the common 
> parts of both file next to each other, in this way you can quickly 
> see the differnces between ,for instance, to different versions of a 
> piece of code, there are some options included to ignore white space 
> and that kind of stuff.

Just FYI: the DJGPP port of GNU Diffutils includes a program called 
`sdiff' which has much in common with your program.  It lacks the 
colorization feature, but otherwise is quite powerful, and will let you 
interactively merge the differences.