On Tuesday 15 February 2005 14:35, Douglas Frank wrote: > I've always found mgdiff quite useful, and am surprised it hasn't an rpm > among the extras. OTOH, it does have a dependency on lesstif, so it > isn't exactly lightweight. I can see why someone might object to > encumbering their system with lesstif & other cruft, just to get one > utility running. > > Would anyone like to recommend a substitute? > > (Mgdiff is an X front end for diff. It displays diffs horizontally > rather than vertically, as diff does.) > meld - see meld.sf.net tkdiff google for: tkdiff-4.0-1.cern.noarch.rpm vimdiff gvimdiff jedit (http://jedit.org) Kompare emacs xxdiff http://xxdiff.sourceforge.net/ kdiff3 these are from a thread on the subject in january i use tkdiff and have not tried the others yet. paul -- Paul F. Almquist paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Eau Claire, WI USA