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by AlexL
Tue Jul 09, 2013 8:34 am
Forum: ExamDiff Pro
Topic: Installation directory is default instead of previous
Replies: 3
Views: 7409

Installation directory is default instead of previous

Hello. Today I installed EDP Pro v6 over v4.5.2.2. My v4.5.2.2 was installed in D:\Program Files\... I downloaded v6 and launched the installer without uninstalling v4.5.2.2. I expected the installer of v6 to prompt me the old directory when I tried to install v6, but instead it suggested me to inst...
by AlexL
Mon Mar 18, 2013 10:13 am
Forum: ExamDiff Pro
Topic: Difference files have a space between each letter
Replies: 3
Views: 8783

Re: Difference files have a space between each letter

Maybe the files are in Unicode? How do you know that these files actually don't have spaces?
by AlexL
Thu Feb 14, 2013 11:15 am
Forum: ExamDiff Pro
Topic: Pure binary comparison (byte by byte). All bytes
Replies: 11
Views: 22897

Re: Pure binary comparison (byte by byte). All bytes

MSpagni wrote:Me too, I would like it to be implemented in EDP.
Anyway, in the meantime ;-) I keep using
FC /B <filename1> <filename2>
I use this and other methods of comparing. But "modern" people want something like EDP.
by AlexL
Thu Feb 14, 2013 12:42 am
Forum: ExamDiff Pro
Topic: Pure binary comparison (byte by byte). All bytes
Replies: 11
Views: 22897

Re: Pure binary comparison (byte by byte). All bytes

Colleague just asked me to show difference in binary files (using simple byte-to-byte view), and appeared that I still can't do it in ExamDiff Pro v4.5. I voted for it in wish list, but this fact did not help my colleague. Is it implemented in v5 (I don't have it yet)? Or is it going to be implement...
by AlexL
Fri Jan 11, 2013 2:27 am
Forum: ExamDiff Pro
Topic: ExamDiff options are ignored
Replies: 10
Views: 26113

Re: ExamDiff options are ignored

I'm not sure what you are suggesting. ExamDiff Pro reads its options from the Registry by default, and from either a session (via command line), session file (via command line), or command line arguments. All of these methods already exist. By the way, can we control "View -> Use Ignores Optio...
by AlexL
Thu Jan 10, 2013 1:43 am
Forum: ExamDiff Pro
Topic: ExamDiff options are ignored
Replies: 10
Views: 26113

Re: ExamDiff options are ignored

Is it possible to override the GUI setting with a command line option? No, it's not. When we launch ExamDiff Pro, it takes options from somewhere (e.g., from configuration file, from registry, from session configuration, etc.). I suggest to add command line to these places, from which the applicati...
by AlexL
Tue Oct 26, 2010 9:25 am
Forum: ExamDiff Pro
Topic: Out of memory error
Replies: 14
Views: 15703

Re: Out of memory error

MSpagni wrote:...So, what can I do to compare huge binary files?
I think I'll do a porting to windows of my old DOS "COMP" clone...
You should do this: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1208#p3142 (see the last post in that thread).
by AlexL
Mon Aug 09, 2010 11:31 pm
Forum: ExamDiff Pro
Topic: How do I detect file diffs only yes/no ?
Replies: 4
Views: 8075

Re: How do I detect file diffs only yes/no ?

Or just use "fc /b File1 File2".
by AlexL
Thu Jun 24, 2010 12:13 am
Forum: ExamDiff Pro
Topic: How do I detect file diffs only yes/no ?
Replies: 4
Views: 8075

Re: How do I detect file diffs only yes/no ?

pstein wrote:I want to compare occasionally two very big (binary) files or two directories which contain very big (binary) files.
Very big means > 300 MB
...
Currently the comparisons are very very long running....
By the way, maybe this topic will also help you to decrease comparison time.
by AlexL
Wed Jun 23, 2010 11:43 pm
Forum: ExamDiff Pro
Topic: ignoring lines with certain content
Replies: 6
Views: 10543

Re: ignoring lines with certain content

...ignore the first N lines of the file... For this you should pass your files through a command line Unix-like command: tail +3 YourFile.txt will output your file from line 3 (skipping first two lines). If you manage to organize the command above as a filter (or write such filter in, say, Perl), y...
by AlexL
Wed Feb 24, 2010 12:44 am
Forum: ExamDiff Pro
Topic: Missing update
Replies: 14
Views: 14942

Re: Missing update

...I suppose we could, instead of the "Time difference to ignore" option, use a different setting, or simply hardcode it to 2 seconds (which appears to be a safe number) but this a rarely an issue. I'd like to return your attention to the following fragment again: ... File A.txt on FAT32:...
by AlexL
Tue Feb 23, 2010 9:09 am
Forum: ExamDiff Pro
Topic: Missing update
Replies: 14
Views: 14942

Re: Missing update

But the quoted fragment may point to some problem. ...since it appears that there is no "official" way to detect if the copy went ok... This is also questionable. You don't need to know if copy finished ok. You only need to know when to update panels (it may happen several times even befo...
by AlexL
Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:44 am
Forum: ExamDiff Pro
Topic: Missing update
Replies: 14
Views: 14942

Re: Missing update

I did not try to reproduce the problem, but the following fragment is a bit suspicious: ... File A.txt on FAT32: 36.262 KB 02/17/2010 19:46:36 Changed File A.txt on NTFS: 36.256 KB 02/17/2010 21:59:25 Changed Copying file A.txt via EDP from NTFS to FAT32. Copy ok, but EDP says they are still differe...
by AlexL
Thu Feb 11, 2010 5:31 am
Forum: ExamDiff Pro
Topic: Ignore known differences
Replies: 11
Views: 12280

Re: Ignore known differences

Our problem is merging changes between branches of source code where one (or more) of the branches was refactored with huge number of renames Of course, but this is generalized definition (without details), not exact definition. Exact and detailed definition implies knowledge of all possible differ...
by AlexL
Thu Feb 11, 2010 5:22 am
Forum: ExamDiff Pro
Topic: Ignore known differences
Replies: 11
Views: 12280

Re: Ignore known differences

Well, in order to give the exact answer, we should have the exact definition of the problem. I still feel that I don't know it. And of course, you can write some script in Perl (or use any other way to create script or executable) and declare it as a plugin in EDP. There are also several pre-written...