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Does anyone know of a 'diff' tools which runs under
Sun Solaris and which gives a visual representation
of differences between two files??  I am looking
for something like dxdiff which runs on DEC ultrix -
dxdiff shows shaded area of text segments which have
been moved between one file and the next.
Thanks for any help.

  Len

Quote:>Does anyone know of a 'diff' tools which runs under
>Sun Solaris and which gives a visual representation
>of differences between two files??  I am looking
>for something like dxdiff which runs on DEC ultrix -
>dxdiff shows shaded area of text segments which have
>been moved between one file and the next.
>Thanks for any help.

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: >
: > >Does anyone know of a 'diff' tools which runs under
: > >Sun Solaris and which gives a visual representation
: > >of differences between two files??  I am looking
: > >for something like dxdiff which runs on DEC ultrix -
: > >dxdiff shows shaded area of text segments which have
: > >been moved between one file and the next.
: > >Thanks for any help.
: >
: > I'm not familiar with dxdiff, but you may want to try tkdiff.
: >

: Another nice tool I used to like was mgdiff - a Motif-based front end
: to a regular diff;  last year, it could be found at
: http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/pics/viewers/X11/applications/
: don't know if it's still there ...

If you have SPARCworks installed, use filemerge. It's really nice.

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> Does anyone know of a 'diff' tools which runs under
> Sun Solaris and which gives a visual representation
> of differences between two files??  I am looking
> for something like dxdiff which runs on DEC ultrix -
> dxdiff shows shaded area of text segments which have
> been moved between one file and the next.
> Thanks for any help.

There's also tkdiff which needs tcl/Tk which is small, quick, and
works well with RCS and CVS files.  It might work with SCCS files.
Tkdiff is at:  http://www.ipass.net/~klassa/tkdiff/

If you have tcl/Tk installed everywhere, tkdiff works everywhere...

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#! /bin/sh
#
# vdiff FILE1 FILE2
# visual diff

if [ $# -lt 2 ] ; then
        echo "     usage: `basename $0` {file1} {file2}"
        exit 1
fi

if [ -d $1 -a -d $2 ] ; then
        echo "$0: both are directories, give me something to work with!"
        exit 2
fi

l=$1
r=$2
if [ -d $1 ] ; then
        l="$1/`basename $2`"
elif [ -d $2 ] ; then
        r="$2/`basename $1`"
fi

/opt/SUNWspro/bin/filemerge -r $l $r &

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