WinMerge - what files can be compared?

oeconom · Post by **oeconom** » Tue 31. Jan 2006, 14:57

Hi there,

WinMerge (http://winmerge.org/) has been discussed quite freequently to compare new cvs files.
What kind of files are comparable?
Does anyone know some kind of solution to compare changes within xls files?

Thanks,
FELIX

frold · Post by **frold** » Tue 31. Jan 2006, 15:57

oeconom wrote:Hi there,

WinMerge (http://winmerge.org/) has been discussed quite freequently to compare new cvs files.
What kind of files are comparable?
Does anyone know some kind of solution to compare changes within xls files?

Thanks,
FELIX

you should be able to compare all kind of files....

But xls is a cryptated fileformat right? So, you cant use it for that...

Eg. export you xls to xml or something and then compare?

cyrano · Post by **cyrano** » Tue 31. Jan 2006, 16:02

as i'am not wrong xls is Excel format :-)

so my winerge crashes when i want to open xls- files...

pico · Post by **pico** » Tue 31. Jan 2006, 18:08

Hi

this Windows Guys

open a DOS-Console and Enter c:>fc /?

but I don't know if it is usefull for Execell

DeXXus · Post by **DeXXus** » Tue 31. Jan 2006, 19:53

All the software seems commercial (costly).

I've heard that this java package can do such, but have no idea how complex or worthwhile it would be to investigate.
http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/

Here's a link about simple workbook ****:
http://exceltips.vitalnews.com/Pages/T0 ... books.html

WinMerge - what files can be compared?

WinMerge - what files can be compared?

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