July 7th, 2006· Can now change how much memory is allocated to zsCompare.
· Fixed so that the lists of warnings will resize properly and so that the warnings can be saved to a file or copied to the clipboard.
· Fixed problem where results were not always generated from the command line when not using a session.
June 13th, 2006· Improve memory usage when writing reports.
· Fixed so to remember the options that were set last on the Directory comparison tab.
· Fixed out of memory error related to zip file usage.
May 24th, 2006· *File and Freeform Text Comparison Changes
· Added the ability to compare text from Microsoft Word Documents (Professional Edition only).
· Added the ability to compare text from PDF Documents (Professional Edition only).
· Added the ability to compare files by line, by word, or by character.
· Added the ability to directly edit the contents of a file (Standard and Professional Editions only).
· Added the ability to compare files where the order of the lines is not important. (Standard and Professional Editions only).
· Added the ability to force zsCompare to compare lines in order without allowing lines to be inserted.
· Added the ability to view the results of a file comparison as binary with each byte shown as a hexadecimal character. (Standard and Professional Editions only).
· Added the ability to break a line after a specified number of characters. This can make the comparison much faster if the file has very long lines. It can also make the results easier to understand. You can also force breaking only by character which is useful for comparing binary files.
· Added the ability to break a line after a specified regular expression. This functionality makes comparing HTML and XML files which do not contain line breaks much easier, and can also let you compare files by sentence rather than by paragraph. This makes the results much easier to understand. (Standard and Professional Editions only)
· Added the ability to compare line breaks (carriage returns and line feeds) in a file.
· Added the ability to set the character set that should be used when reading a file. This allows comparison of Unicode files. (Standard and Professional Editions only).
· Added the ability to compare information which has been exported from the registry. (Standard and Professional Editions only).
· Added the ability to show the context of changes. When the display of lines without changes is off, this will show the 5 lines around a change regardless of if they are changed to make understanding the results easier.
· Added the ability to show white space in the results using {tab}, {cr}, {lf}.
· When copying several lines of text from the results, changed to not include blank lines due to lines being inserted.
· Added the ability to copy lines from the Freeform Text results to the clipboard.
· Added the ability to specify files to be compared on the command line without using a session. The new command line options are /leftFile and /rightFile.
· Fixed the HTML Report to correctly show inserted and deleted lines when the results are combined.
· Added information about specific sequences that are different within lines of text to XML results.
· Improved the speed of comparing files especially files with long lines in them.
· Fixed so lines with unimportant differences can be synchronized and copied.
· Consolidated Options for Text File Comparison and Freeform Text Comparison.
· Fixed to save using system line separator when saving files that had changes made to them.
· Fixed ignoring of white space when there are several changes adjacent to the white space.
· Prevented both files from being saved if changes were made to only one file.
· Optimized memory usage while running a file comparison.
· *Directory Comparison Changes
· Create and compare Snapshots of the file system (Standard and Professional Editions only).
· Create and apply Patch files for files (Standard and Professional Editions only). Patch files allow you to store only the differences between two files. The difference file can be used to recreate the changed file from the original file. This saves space on hard drives and allows you to send small files to people at remote locations.
· Create and apply Patch files for directories (Professional Edition only). Patch files allow you to store only the differences between two directories. The difference file can be used to recreate the changed directory from the original directory. This saves space on hard drives and allows you to send small files to people at remote locations.
· Include patches for multiple versions of a file in a single patch file (Professional Edition only). This allows you to store differences for several original files which can be used to recreate the final version. This can be used when a remote user may have one of several initial versions.
· While a folder is loading, it is shown with a question mark on the folder.
· Comparison results refresh automatically when files are changed outside of zsCompare.
· Added the ability to compare creation dates for a file or folder.
· Added the ability to change touch a file (setting the time stamp to the current time) directly from the results.
· Added the ability to change set the time stamp for a file directly from the results.
· Added the ability to change attributes for a file directly from the results.
· Added the ability to rename a file directly from the results.
· Added the ability to compare extended attributes on Mac OS X including executable permissions.
· Fixed to correctly copy execute permissions on Mac OS X when a file is copied.
· Added the ability to control which differences should be expanded automatically after a comparison is complete.
· Added the ability to ignore the read-only file flag on files so they can be properly synchronized.
· Changed so closing the confirmation dialog for deleting files with the close button cancels the deletion.
· When an option is turned on in the options, the column is automatically turned on in the results.
· Added an option to show a selected file in the system file browser (i.e. Finder on Mac OS X and Explorer on Windows).
· Added the ability to drag files from the results to another location to make a copy of the file or open an application.
· Added the ability to filter the files to be compared according to file size.
· Added the ability to ignore or remove files or folders from the results.
· Added the ability to expand results using Ctrl Right Arrow and collapse results using Ctrl Left Arrow.
· Added the ability to copy a the path of a file to the clipboard using Ctrl C and Ctrl Shift C to copy from the left side or right side respectively.
· Added control over what extensions should be treated as zip files, word files, and PDF files.
· Improved the speed of checking if a file is an alias under Mac OS X Tiger
· Fixed copying the archive bit on Windows systems when copying files.
· Fixed so the time stamp is set properly when copying read-only files.
· Fixed so turning off show items where times match still shows orphan files.
· Fixed so a comparison can be canceled while finding orphan files.
· Copying and deleting entire zip files and jar files as well as entries within them.
· Sped up the results display and optimized memory usage.
· *General Changes
· Split zsCompare into three editions Lite, Standard, and Professional.
· Created Linux version of zsCompare.
· Removed zsDuplicateHunter from zsCompare. Existing users will receive a copy of zsDuplicateHunter Standard Edition
· Improved installation process on Mac OS X.
· Reorganized the Options screen to make the options easier to navigate.
· Added additional control over the colors used in results display.
· Added the ability to control whether the thumbnail view scrolls by page or by difference.
· Added the ability to refresh the results and clear the results.
· Added the ability to customize font sizes in reports.
· Added the ability to disable automatic resizing of column widths which can speed up display for very large result sets.
· Added additional error checking if invalid formats are set for the time stamp format and added an interactive preview of the format.
· Moved Auto Compare settings to options dialog.
· Added the ability to specify the current time zone for better control when setting time stamps.
· Added icons for buttons and menu items to make the interface easier to understand.
· Added Memory Monitor to show how much memory is being used by zsCompare.
· Added the ability to force a refresh of the results using a menu item or the F5 key.
· Removed Expand All functionality for results because it made the results more difficult to interpret and took a long time to execute.
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