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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.