COMPARE™ description

COMPARE is an HP NonStop NSK-only utility program that identifies the  differences between files or segments of files. It can be used to compare text files, entry-sequenced files, object or unstructured files. The product has two different modes of comparison:

• matching the files as they exist.
• matching the files as they would exist if all comments and white space were removed. (COMPARE understands comments in TAL, C. COBOL, JAVA & HTML languages.)

NCI's COMPARE uses extensive correlation technology to reduce false matches and miss-compares that tend to 'confuse' other similar utilities. COMPARE can identify additions, deletions and modifications.

The user can select one of several output modes that fit the particular need:

• List the complete file with modifications marked, and the comparison statistics.
• List only the modifications themselves and the comparison statistics.
• List the comparison statistics: the number of adds, modifies and deletes.