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, 31 Jan 1997 12:45:58 MET
Subject: filecompare utility
Reply-to: m DOT versteegh AT cpedu DOT rug DOT nl
Message-ID: <C443447F2D@novell_cpedu1.cpedu.rug.nl>

this is an announcement of the release of version 0.9.4 of my 
filecompare utility
please send any comments to me in personal, for I don't have the time 
to keep up with the newsgroup/mailinglist (I do read them 
occasionally,but not all of it)

htis utility can be obtained at 
www.cpedu.rug.nl/~N0772984/martijn.html

the file README.CM follows: 
version 0.9.4


        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