[KLUG Members] Document Comparison Software

[Doc Rea]

Thanks. I was wondering about that. I've been trying some <diff> 
commands this morning and hadn't been able to get anything useful. I'm 
sure that was part of it.

Unfortunately, converting the documents to text would be a last resort 
though. These are huge files with much formatting.



adam at morrison-ind.com wrote:
>> I'm wondering if anyone have ever used any open source document 
>> comparison software. Not the type normally used in software 
>> development or bundled with versioning control. Instead, I mean 
>> something where you have 2 documents (let's say .doc) and you run them 
>> through the software. Then you either get a report of differences, 
>> grapical markings in the documents, or both.
>> There's plenty of software out there to purchase, but I wondered if 
>> anyone had used anything else. If there's a GUI, that's great since 
>> I'd like many people to use it. I know that <diff> is out there and if 
>> that's the way to go I'm OK with that. I just wondered if folks had 
>> used anything else.
> 
> 
> diff won't work for OLE stream files like M$-Office documents;  you'd 
> have to
> export them to text first.
> 
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