April 20, 2008 - A New Version of WinMerge - 2.8.0

One of the most useful tools in my Testers' Tool Box is WinMerge.

I use WinMerge all the time for comparing folders full of files, and viewing the differences.

The WinMerge folks release new versions fairly often, so it's worth checking out their web site periodically.

Version 2.8.0 was released recently, and it has a new feature I appreciate - opening binary files.

WinMerge could not earlier show files it detected as binary files. And only compare result for such files was "binary files are identical" or "binary files are different". Now WinMerge shows all files in file compare. Even binary files. Bytes that have no visual presentation (character) are shown as byte value.

Check out WinMerge at http://winmerge.org/

Also see:

http://www.sqablogs.com/jstrazzere/735/A+New+Tool+in+My+Tester%26%2339%3Bs+Tool+Box+-+WinMerge.html

See all the tools in my tool box at

http://www.sqablogs.com/jstrazzere/55/Tester%26%2339%3Bs+Tool+Box.html