Beyond Compare 3.1.4 Build 10554

Beyond Compare is a utility for comparing things. Things like text files, folders, zip archives, FTP sites, etc. Use it to manage source code, keep folders in sync, compare program output, and validate CD copies. Beyond Compare is a useful and reliable utility that will help you compare and synchronize your files and folders. Although there is support for automatic functions, the main goal of Beyond Compare is to help you analyze differences in detail, and carefully reconcile them. It commands a wide range of file and text operations.

Beyond Compare distinguishes the information it compares as either files or folders. Beyond Compare is not limited to comparing folders and files on its host computer. It can compare folders and files over a network connection or via FTP. In the context of Beyond Compare, folder-like files, such as ZIP files and CAB archives, are considered folders as well. Beyond Compare can also create a folder-like file called a "snapshot." Snapshots are a picture of a folders contents at a particular time, but snapshots do not show the actual contents of the folders files. Beyond Compares major components are a side-by-side Folder Viewer and a side-by-side File Viewer.

Major Features:

1. Compare text files
2. Compare folders, zip archives, ftp sites
3. Update websites
4. Merge code changes
5. Compare program output.

Enhancements:

• Notable Changes
• Added Picture Compare reports.
• Replaced "File->View as Webpage" command for individual files with a
• "View->Webpages" command that works on all sides.
• Fixed crashes under Wine and incorrect behavior under Windows 7.
• Archives
• Zips now read/write Unicode filenames as documented in the official spec.
• Improved auto-detection of OEM/ANSI encoding for filenames in zips.
• Fixed "File not found in archive" error when trying to extract files from
• a zip that uses as the path delimiter.
• Fixed adding files to .tar.gz archives.
• Fixed zip header VersionNeededToExtract fields so they match those
• produced in earlier BC versions (pre-3.1).
• Data Compare
• File info panels now show delimiter, qualifer, ignore multiple delims,
• and whether column names were found.
• Fixed "Columns" session settings locking issue.
• Fixed "Columns" session settings to offer "Fill Names Using Comparison"
• if either file includes column names.
• Fixed crash when editing cell on line with no text.