Re: Comparing source members

Adam,

No, this is not the same as CODE, which gives a side-by-side comparison with color highlighting of differences, with both sides editable if the members were opened for edit in CODE.

Dave Shaw
Mohawk Industries

----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Glauser" <adamglauser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: midrange.wdsci-l
To: <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Comparing source members

Joe Pluta wrote:

Back in a previous life, I thought I remembered that the Compare with each
other option of WDSC worked relatively well. That seems to have been a
dream, because today I can't get around the issue of source dates and
sequence numbers not matching.

Sorry for the double reply. I just remembered yet another compare
function that you can use. If you have a member open in the RS LPEX
editor, click the blue delta/triangle in the toolbar (or 'Edit ->
Compare to file...'). Then, browse to the desired member for
comparison. I just did a quick test and this method seems to ignore the
sequence number and date. IIRC, it is the same as the compare function
from the CoDE editor.

From my perspective, there are two negative aspects of this compare
function. Firstly, it is a PITA to browse to the comparison target
repeatedly. Secondly, it presents the differences in "stacked" format
(ala diff or CMPPFM), but distinguishes adds/deletes by colours instead
of front-of-line characters. Every time I use it I have to think a bit
about which colour means which, but that maybe that is a matter of a
PEBKAC and this won't be a problem for others.