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- Marco's File Comparer V1.0
- 21.July.97
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- 1-INTRODUCTION
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Marco's File Comparer is a program that is used to compare
- two files to see if they are equal also reporting
- useful information such as the number of bytes not
- matching and the % of the files that match.
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- It was made using AMOS PRO 2.0 and a GUI Extension made by
- Pietro Ghizzoni from Italy.
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- 2-COPYRIGHT
- ~~~~~~~~~~~
- "Marco's File Comparer" is Freeware. It is copyrighted
- Marco A.G.Pinto and may be freely copied provided that
- nothing is changed.
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- You may not disassemble nor decompile it either.
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- If you put it together with commercial products please
- send me a copy of the product.
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- If you put it in cover disks/CDs of magazines please
- send me a copy of the magazine with the disk/CD.
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- 3-DISCLAIMER
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- This program is supplied "AS-IS".
- Use it at your own risk - I have made my best to make sure
- everything is well but if something goes wrong don't blame
- me.
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- I also have the right to change the documentation and the
- program at any time without any previous information.
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- 4-CONTACTS
- ~~~~~~~~~~
- If you want to contact me write to:
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- Snail Mail:
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- Marco A.G.Pinto
- Apartado 3083
- 2745 Queluz
- (Portugal)
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- E.Mail:
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- nop10942@mail.telepac.pt
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- 5-HOW IT WORKS
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- The program is quite intuitive but here it goes:
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- You can select the 1st file either by typing its name
- followed by return in the first string gadget or by using
- the 1st disk gadget.
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- To select the 2nd file it's the same thing but use the 2nd
- text gadget or the 2nd disk gadget.
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- Other options:
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- BUFFER SIZE:
- -DYNAMIC means that the program allocates two memory
- blocks each one with the size of the files (one for each
- file). It is faster this way.
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- -FIXED 16Kb means that it just allocates two memory
- blocks with the size of 16Kb each and loads the files
- into them part by part. It is slower and should only be
- used if you don't have enough memory.
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- ABOUT:
- Shows some information about the program. To see the
- picture correctly make sure you have a Workbench screen
- with at least 16 colours and Magic Workbench palette.
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- COMPARE:
- Starts comparing the two files selected using also the
- selected buffer size.
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- ABORT:
- Can be used to abort a compare operation.
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- EXIT:
- Click here to leave the program. The same can be done by
- clicking in the close gadget (top left of the screen).
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- 6-FUTURE
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- Things planned:
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- o An iconify gadget
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- o A "VIEW" gadget to show the content of the two files in
- the positions where they are different
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- o A tooltype for selecting the Buffer Size
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- o Create a good Workbench icon
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- o Use Reqtools.library instead of Asl.library
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- o Any good ideas you may have
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- 7-HISTORY
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- o 1.0 21.Jul.97
- First release.
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