DLSuperC info | download
ver 7.3a - 2/25/05 (473 kb)
DLSuperCX info | download
ver 1.8 - 05/18/04 (438 kb)
DLSuperCBF info | download
ver 3.2 - 05/18/04 (366 kb)
DLSuperCTW info | download
ver 2.4b - 02/26/05 (605 kb)
DLSuperCBT info | download
ver 2.2 - 05/18/04 (339 kb)
DLSuperCRV info | download
ver 1.4 - 05/22/02 (331 kb)
DLSuperC info | download
ver 7.3a - 2/25/05 (1160 kb)
DLSuperCX info | download
ver 1.8 - 05/18/04 (1508 kb)
DLSuperCBF info | download
ver 3.2 - 05/18/04 (1034 kb)
DLSuperCTW info | download
ver 2.4b - 02/26/05 (1285 kb)
DLSuperCBT info | download
ver 2.2 - 05/18/04 (1005 kb)
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Program Summaries
DLSuperC
is, relatively, simple compare program to use and
deliberately aimed at the single file pair text line processing.
DLSuperC contains most of
the basic components for the entire line of the
DLSuperC family
and could serve most users' text compare requirements. Many
enhancements have been added since the program's original introduction
to make it a full featured "industrial grade" text compare program -
mostly because of its input text filtering and the processing of file
sizes greater than 64K lines. DLSuperC is an evolving vehicle extending its scope up to Win XP operations.
Extensions for interactive large size lines (2000 + characters per line using the
Nlbx Preference Option) allows the program to evolve to an even more advanced level.
The complementary program
DLSuperCTW tracks this capability
and provides even more advanced functions with added word coloring and highlighting.
DLSuperC
implements a batch
interface for execution from the command line or via a user program.
DLSuperCX is a more complex program than DLSuperC.
DLSuperCX aimed at the more complex task of comparing two complete file
directories with one program invocation. However, DLSuperCX can also be configured to do a single text file pair
processing as DLSuperC,
resulting in the same output results.
Many new additional features made to
DLSuperC will probably not be
introduced into DLSuperCX. DLSuperC, not
DLSuperCX, should be considered the exclusive vehicle to be
periodically extended with new functions as needed to answer new programmer
productivity requirements - normally directed to individual paired file
comparison. Yet, occasionally, a few new features which are unique to
DLSuperCX will be introduced as productivity enhancements.
See the separate topic "DLSuperC vs DLSuperCX" for DLSuperC and DLSuperCX
differences.
DLSuperCBF is similar
to DLSuperCX
but is aimed at comparing directory files at the
binary-file level. DLSuperCBF should be faster
and produce results expected of more traditional directory compare
programs. The user is often tempted to try more ambitious line compares
which attempts to find where inserted and deleted lines appear within two files
rather that whether two files are equal in content and length.
The processing overhead involved in the complete
compare of a directory is significantly reduced when only file matching, not line matching, is involved.
The advantage of comparing
included subdirectories within the initial directories is an added
feature found in few, if any, directory compare programs. File date stamping can, also, be used as
a criteria whereby copied files with identical time stamps can be, optionally, assumed
as equal thereby saving extra processing overhead. Several
users have used DLSuperCBF to verify a newly
created CD against the original version or source equivalent.
DLSuperCTW is a recent addition to the
DLSuperC
family. It is an extension of DLSuperC that combines both line and
word comparison. The default mode displays word changes with up to 2 additional lines positioned
vertically under the referenced matched portion of the changed line.
Changed lines are composed and displayed as up to 128 character length
lines. Line wrapping results for long changed lines forming multiple continuation lines. This mode is
excellent for text that has been reformatted, causing text to flow onto the next line.
The newest Wcln option rivals the line compare mode of
DLSuperC
since it display text changes as colored words within the displayed changed line. This mode requires word matches
to observe line ending boundaries and not flow onto adjacent lines. All text lines,
matched or changed, are displayed as single lines up to 2000+ characters in length without the
use of line composing or using continuation.
Text (e.g. *.txt), script (e.g.*. html) as well as program text source files (e.g. *.pas, *.cpp) are excellent input
files for
DLSuperCTW to compare.
The Wcln option comparison results should not be very different then
expected from using DLSuperC. However,
word compare has more granularity in detailing, and allows better visual location of where
source changes appear in the changed lines. Up to 10 word separators can be defined as additional
delimiters so that special tokens (i.e. "<", ";", "=", etc) can be detected and not obscure the
intervening matching character string.
DLSuperCBT is similar to DLSuperC with
one exception. It provides for comparing files at the byte level (versus
a text line) while resynchronizing itself during byte mismatches. Most
byte compare programs do not have the capability to do the resynchronization.
The change report of DLSuperCBT is in the form of a
hexadecimal line list with the printable characters shown of the same line of
data. DLSuperCBT has several preference options. One option allows the user to
do a part compare of a portion from two input files. DLSuperCBT is a special
variation of DLSuperC that can be performed on all
file types but it details differences at the lowest byte
level.
DLSuperCRV is also very much like
DLSuperC but without input text filters. DLSuperCRV is designed to
be a tool to be used, primarily, in a source library maintenance environment. It
can generate both a "Delta" and an "Undelta" file. It, also,
generates full lines of source in its delta output and has the added
capability of processing Fixed Length Records (i.e., all data records are
equal and no CR/LF is needed at the end of each fixed length record).
DLSuperCRV has a batch mode processing capability almost identical to
DLSuperCBT. The objective of the batch mode is to allow the user to
prepare an input file, which defines a stream of individual jobs to do a set of
library compare operations.
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