Thanks Chris. I'd discovered Directory Match from a quick search of the J wiki on "compare" and hurriedly tried it before I posed my question to the list, but totally missed the significance of the buttons.
...Which do what I was looking for. On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 6:59 PM, chris burke <cbu...@jsoftware.com> wrote: > fcompare is a cover for compare, that compares two files. > > Also look at Directory Match, available in the gui. This uses compare under > the covers, and has a button to call an external diff like meld for more > control. > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Ian Clark <earthspo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks, David. Just what I need. >> >> I'll have to get to know my addons a lot better. >> >> >> >> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 2:11 PM, David Mitchell <davidmitch...@att.net> >> wrote: >> > I have used these 2 methods on Windows and J6. >> > >> > 0: >> > Assume f1 and f2 contain the full file path to two J scripts. >> > >> > 1: >> > >> > load'compare' >> > load'files' >> > (fread fn1) compare_jcompare_ (fread fn2) >> > >> > 2: >> > >> > load'task' >> > shell 'diff ',f1,' ',f2 >> > >> > -- >> > David Mitchell >> > >> > On 11/20/2011 8:09, Ian Clark wrote: >> >> Has anyone written a verb to compare two scripts? (Just to save me >> >> writing one...) >> >> >> >> Two literal nouns with LF-separated lines will do. Changed / deleted / >> >> inserted lines. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
