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TextDiff v4.6

Andrew Lee on 12 Feb 2013

TextDiff is a text and folder comparison tool. It supports drag-and-drop of files, customizable color highlighting of differences, two-way merging, in-place text editing, etc.

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System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. The files you need are located in the TextDiff subfolder. Launch TextDiff.exe.
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Jake on 2011-05-31 22:14

Used ExamDiff and TextDiff as well, so I'm able to make comparisons.

Cons:
-TextDiff is more than 8k, ExamDiff sports only 6k

Pros:
- ExamDiff is extremely (!) slow when you have to comparise files around 4-5 Mb, not even to mention larger files. TextDiff comparise them almost immadietly. Excellent!
- When ExamDiff take ~50k from RAM for a smaller file pair, TextDiff take less than 20k for the same files. When ED need ~180k, TD need a little more than 70k.
- ExamDiff save settings to the registry. TextDiff make a single .ini file in it's own folder.

I think it's obvious which one is the superior over the other.

Jake on 2011-05-31 22:16

And yeah, not to forget TextDiff also have a separate folder comparison side as well.

NickR on 2011-09-05 18:21

CAUTION: Writes corrupt files on my XP sp3 setup.

File compare works (Superbly - my favourite by far)

But if I write file1 or file2 after executing the actual'Compare'
or some other edit changes. My file is written truncated and
in Unicode BigEndian UTF-8, which spoils my day somewhat.

I checked carefully and re-downloaded etc for a few days now.
May not effect everyone. Hope this helps someone avoid a problem.

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X-WinMerge v2.12.4 [rev11]

webfork on 16 Aug 2012
  • 7MB (uncompressed)
  • Suggested by Lupo73

WinMerge is a visual text file differencing and merging tool. It can be used to determined what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions. It comes with a built-in editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers and word-wrap, and handles DOS, UNIX and MAC text file formats.

X-WinMerge is a portable wrapper for WinMerge. Alternatively, WinMergePortable is also available.

Category:
System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: MFC71.DLL MSVCR71.DLL MSVCP71.DLL,
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes.
  1. Edit X-WinMerge.ini
  2. Under [FileToRun], modify line to read: "PathToExe=$Bin$$AppName$WinMergeU.exe"
License: GPL
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Launch X-WinMerge.exe
  3. From the Menu, select Visualizza and select Lingua
  4. Choose your language from the list
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DeepAnger on 2008-11-19 09:31

Warning, this one stays in Italian language :-/

Drone242 on 2012-03-15 18:29

@DeepAnger:
You need to modify the X-WinMerge.ini file to set the locale used on application start. Search this line:
WinMerge\Locale|"LanguageId"=dword:00000410
Replace the dword number with the one you need:
00000000 = "Language Neutral" (uses english on my box)
00000407 = German
00000409 = English
0000040c = French
00000413 = Dutch
0000041d = Swedish
00000c0a = Spanish
For a full list check this list on Microsoft Technet -> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744319(v=ws.10).aspx

webfork on 2012-12-07 02:37

I've had this program on my computer for several years without having a real need for it. Knowing the nature of what it does and some of my projects, it was there just in case. Well, today I screwed up a script (evidently what one browser thinks is commented isn't something other browsers agree upon) and this helped me fix it quickly and easily. An excellent program.

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