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- General Instructions:
-
- 1. When the program starts the upper left text editing
- window is highlighted. Open the first file into this
- window.
-
- 2. Click on the upper right window and open the second file.
-
- 3. Select Compare from the Compare files menu and the
- comparison shows up in the comparison window.
-
- Helpful hints:
-
- 1. I can't easily display line numbers in the original
- files but if you hold the mouse button down while the
- cursor is in the window the title bar shows the column
- and line number of the cursor. This should help you find
- particular lines in the original files. (The title bar also
- gives the length of the current selection in characters and
- lines)
-
- 2. The Special menu has a search dialog based on regular
- expressions. Read the two help dialogs for instructions.
- There is also a Jump command to allow you to jump to a
- specific line number in the current window.
-
- General Notes:
-
- 1. The code is not fast but is a stand alone utility. I wrote it
- so I could get a comparison file and then go to the point
- of interest and not weed through all the changes I am not
- interested in. You can speed things up somewhat by reducing the
- size of the Comparison window so that there is less time spent
- scrolling. I decided the scrolling was worth since that lets you
- know that the program is working.
-
- 2. The comparison can be run in the background and should not
- slow up foreground activities too much. I tested this on
- a stock Mac II so on slower machine the response in foreground
- operations may suffer.
-
- 3. Typing a period '.' will interrupt the program gracefully.
- Typing a Command-'.' will interrupt it ungracefully when the
- next IO occurs to any window. This is an artifact of the compiler.