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Free First public release date Year of latest stable version Windows Macintosh Linux Other platforms Max supported file size Beyond Compare: Scooter Software [1] No; Proprietary: No 1996 2025-02-27 (v5.0.6) Yes Yes Yes > 2GB (64 bits) Compare++: Coode Software [2] No; Proprietary No 2010 2016-7-17 (3.0.1.0b) Yes [3] No No diff, diff3: AT&T
WinMerge is a free software tool for data comparison and merging of text-like files. It is useful for determining what has changed between versions, and then merging changes between versions. WinMerge runs on Microsoft Windows.
Meld is a visual diff and merge tool, targeted at developers. It allows users to compare two or three files or directories visually, color-coding the different lines. Meld can be used for comparing files, directories, and version controlled repositories.
PC World writer Michael Desmond included the program in a 2005 list of utilities for a "Trouble-Free PC" and praised its "watch list" feature. [5] Beyond Compare also was featured in the March 2005 issue of the Windows IT Pro magazine in the "What's Hot" section.
The KDE diff tool Kompare. Editing documents, program code, or any data always risks introducing errors. Displaying the differences between two or more sets of data, file comparison tools can make computing simpler, and more efficient by focusing on new data and ignoring what did not change.
In computing, the utility diff is a data comparison tool that computes and displays the differences between the contents of files. Unlike edit distance notions used for other purposes, diff is line-oriented rather than character-oriented, but it is like Levenshtein distance in that it tries to determine the smallest set of deletions and insertions to create one file from the other.
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The last time I checked, 2 GB referred to significantly more data than 64 bits — Preceding unsigned comment added by Authun (talk • contribs) 08:46, 10 October 2013 (UTC) 64 bits refers to the amount of data addressable by a 64 bit value (i.e., 2^64).