From: VERSTEEGH M <M DOT Versteegh AT cpedu DOT rug DOT nl>
Organization:  RuG Onderwijs Nat/Sch
To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Date:          Fri, 7 Feb 1997 13:05:40 MET
Subject:       file-compare utility
Reply-to: m DOT versteegh AT cpedu DOT rug DOT nl
Message-ID: <A4BBEA2150@novell_cpedu1.cpedu.rug.nl>

a new version of my filecompare utility:version 0.9.5

changes:
    -bugfix in the INSERT code(this is the reason to release this so 
        quick after the last version)
    -added viewer capability (cmp can now 
        be used as a viewer for a single file)
    
    this utility can be obtained from 
httw://www.cpedu.rug.nl/~N0772984/martijn.html
    I also uploaded it to x2ftp.oulu.fi , I don't know when they'll 
move it from incoming to /pub/msdos/utils
        Martijn Versteegh
        
        readme.cm for the distribution follows:
        


version 0.9.5


        The most important line from the whole document:
        run the program without arguments to get usage help

        CMP. a file compare utility
        I wrote this utility, and I think it is quite useful. A 
graphical version with
more lines on the screen(50 instead of 25) is also available the way.
this program is swapware(I like this idea Shawn), that means if you 
use my
program and you like it, send me something in return.
my email adress is m DOT versteegh AT cpedu DOT rug DOT nl my mail adress is 
       postbox 1443
       9701BK
       Groningen
       The Netherlands
(I live on a boat,thats why I use a postbox at the postoffice)

DISTRUBUTION:
        please distribute this program as much as possible, for I 
think it is
a useful tool, especially when you're managing more versions of a 
program in development
I would very much aprreciate it if you distributed the program in an 
archive
together with this text file.

        As this is just version 0.9 please send all bug reports to 
me. 
        this version is from januari 1997 so if it's more than 2 
months old
        there probably is a fixed version, and I'd rather not get any 
bug reports 
        about this one anymore
                
features:
        -two file displayed next to eachother
        -arrow keys scroll the first file, the second file will be 
displayed
                so, that the common lines are next to eachother
        - -/+ to jump to the  next/last difference
        -option to compress multiple spaces into one when comparing
        -option to ignore all spaces when comparing
        -option to ignore all lines with less than n characters, 
wehere n is out of 
                0-9, this comes in handy with source code because you 
don't want to 
                compare single {'s.
        -option to ignore C++ style // comments when comparing lines
        -interactively make a third file from the best parts of the 
other two

changes from the last version:
        -bugfixes (o.a. a bug that caused the program not to diplay 
properly)
        -added INS/DEL (inserts a line from panel 2 in panel 
1/deletes a line from panel 1)
        -added CONTROL-ARROWS (just moves file 2, while leaving file 
1 still)



still to do
        -linux port
        -any other suggestions from users


the source code will be available as soon as I have translated the 
comments from dutch to english
the original site of this program(as long as I'm still studying) is
http://iglo.cpedu.rug.nl/~N0772985

known Bugs:
I mistyped the  adress to obtain DJGPP in the usage() function it 
sould be
http://djgpp.delorie.com (not delourie)