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{{Entry
 
{{Entry
 
|Name=compare
 
|Name=compare
|Short description=Text analysis and comparison tool
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|Short description=Faster implementation of 'cmp'
|Full description=Originally designed as an experiment in fuzzy logic, 'compare' has turned into a tool for identifying literary allusions. A machine can analyze large quantities of text with perfect recall. This is particularly advantageous when working with lesser known texts with which readers have a limited degree of familiarity. Other possible applications include indentifying the author of an unattributed piece, or reavealing a point at which an author first read a work. "Allusion" is interpreted as current text that shares something with the source text: words, orthography, meanings, syntactical relations, etc. Using 'compare,' the computer can detect a measure of similarity between two pieces of text, which defines them as potentially allusive.
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|Full description='Compare' is similar to cmp (in the 'diffutils' package) but faster and with better readable output. It examines one file and standard in (or two files on a byte by byte basis) and prints the file position of the first difference it finds, first in decimal and then in hexadecimal, followed by the differing byte content in hexadecimal and a quoted character.
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|Homepage URL=http://cdrtools.sourceforge.net/private/compare.html
 
|User level=none
 
|User level=none
|Status=Live
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|Is High Priority Project=No
|Component programs=compare.c,compare.pl
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|Decommissioned/Obsolete=No
|Homepage URL=http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/Computing/compare.html
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|Accepts cryptocurrency donations=No
|VCS checkout command=
 
|Computer languages=C,Perl
 
|Documentation note=
 
|Paid support=
 
|IRC help=
 
|IRC general=
 
|IRC development=
 
 
|Related projects=Compare,Diffutils
 
|Related projects=Compare,Diffutils
|Keywords=text,editing,syntax,word processing,comparison literature,allusion,orthography,similarity
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|Keywords=comparison,file,position,character,decimal,hexadecimal,byte
|Is GNU=n
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|Version identifier=1.16
|Last review by=Janet Casey
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|Version date=2004/07/12
|Last review date=2005-07-19
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|Version status=stable
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|Version download=https://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/compare/compare-1.16.tar.gz/download
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|Test entry=No
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|Last review by=Bendikker
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|Last review date=2018/04/19
 
|Submitted by=Database conversion
 
|Submitted by=Database conversion
 
|Submitted date=2011-04-01
 
|Submitted date=2011-04-01
|Version identifier=1.00
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|Is GNU=No
|Version date=1995-05-28
 
|Version status=stable
 
|Version download=http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/Computing/compare.c
 
 
|License verified date=2001-01-31
 
|License verified date=2001-01-31
|Version comment=1.00 stable released 1995-05-28
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{{Project license
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|License=GPLv2orlater
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|License copyright=Copyright (c) 1985, 88, 96-99, 2000-2004 J. Schilling
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|License verified by=BABA200
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|License verified date=2017/02/25
 
}}
 
}}
 
{{Person
 
{{Person
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|Real name=Jörg Schilling
 
|Role=Maintainer
 
|Role=Maintainer
|Real name=Jack Lynch
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|Email=joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de
|Email=jlynch@english.upenn.edu
 
|Resource URL=
 
 
}}
 
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{{Resource
 
{{Resource
|Resource audience=Bug Tracking,Developer,Support
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|Resource audience=R (Ref)
|Resource kind=E-mail
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|Resource URL=https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/compare
|Resource URL=mailto:jlynch@english.upenn.edu
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{{Resource
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|Resource audience=Python (Ref)
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|Resource URL=https://pypi.org/project/compare
 
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{{Software category
 
{{Software category
 
|Interface=command-line
 
|Interface=command-line
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|Programming-language=C
 
|Text-creation=word-processing
 
|Text-creation=word-processing
 
|Use=text-creation
 
|Use=text-creation
 
|Works-with=text
 
|Works-with=text
 
}}
 
}}
{{Project license
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{{Featured}}
|License=GPLv2orlater
 
|License verified by=Janet Casey
 
|License verified date=2001-01-31
 
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Latest revision as of 09:55, 19 April 2018


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compare

http://cdrtools.sourceforge.net/private/compare.html
Faster implementation of 'cmp'

'Compare' is similar to cmp (in the 'diffutils' package) but faster and with better readable output. It examines one file and standard in (or two files on a byte by byte basis) and prints the file position of the first difference it finds, first in decimal and then in hexadecimal, followed by the differing byte content in hexadecimal and a quoted character.





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25 February 2017




Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)Role
Jörg Schilling Maintainer


Resources and communication

AudienceResource typeURI
R (Ref)https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/compare
Python (Ref)https://pypi.org/project/compare


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