Beyond Compare is a utility for comparing things. Things like text files, folders, zip archives, FTP sites, etc. Use it to manage source code, keep folders in sync, compare program output, and validate CD copies.

Beyond Compare is a useful and reliable utility that will help you compare and synchronize your files and folders.

Although there is support for automatic functions, the main goal of Beyond Compare is to help you analyze differences in detail, and carefully reconcile them. It commands a wide range of file and text operations.

Beyond Compare distinguishes the information it compares as either files or folders. Beyond Compare is not limited to comparing folders and files on its host computer. It can compare folders and files over a network connection or via FTP.

In the context of Beyond Compare, folder-like files, such as ZIP files and CAB archives, are considered folders as well.

Beyond Compare can also create a folder-like file called a "snapshot." Snapshots are a picture of a folder's contents at a particular time, but snapshots do not show the actual contents of the folder's files.

Beyond Compare's major components are a side-by-side Folder Viewer and a side-by-side File Viewer.

Here are some key features of "Beyond Compare":

· compare text files
· compare folders, zip archives, ftp sites
· update websites
· merge code changes
· compare program output.

Limitations:

· 30 days trial

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Archives
· Improved compatibilty with third-party zip software when reading/writing
· filenames with extended characters.
· Fixed creating new folders in an empty zip using the wrong character for
· the path delimiter.
· Data Compare
· Fixed error handling for large files that don't have a recognized line
· ending.
· File Formats
· Fixed importing a new file format not showing the associated masks in
· the list view.
· File Views
· Fixed updating the file info panel's "File Format" dropdown captions.
· Fixed file info panels so they show the line ending style.
· Fixed support for Vista theming of MP3 and Version compares.
· Fixed error handling after a cancel.
· Fixed detecting "binary same" so it isn't misdetected when using
· "Ignored", etc.
· Fixed crash when detecting "binary same", occurred when loading a merge,
· after save, toggling "Ignored".
· Folder Compare
· Improved responsiveness when cancelling a load of a large folder from a
· local or network disk.
· Improved loading speed for large snapsho...