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Examples of programs that complete the task include Diff and Cmp . The ability to highlight the changes to a document or file are found in Text Editor s and Word Processor s. Examples of file comparison utilities include FileMerge and Microsoft File Compare . Diffutils is a GNU package which includes the Diff command among other utilities. Free software comparison tools that provide file comparison systems, include WinMerge and Meld . Most file comparison tools find the Longest Common Subsequence between two files. However, other file comparison tools find the Longest Increasing Subsequence between two files (). The file comparison tool used in Bazaar uses ''(insert name of algorithm here)'' {Link without Title} . The Rsync protocol uses a Rolling Hash function to compare two files on two distant computers with low communication overhead. Prior to file comparison, machines existed to compare magnetic tapes or punch cards. The IBM 519 Card Reproducer could determine whether a deck of Punched Cards were equivalent. In 1957, John Van Gardner developed a system to compare the check sums of loaded sections of Fortran programs to Debug compilation problems on the IBM 704 . {Link without Title} SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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