Comparing

Rational Synergy Compare use SiberMerge as the default tool and supports files written in a variety of character encodings. All files involved in a compare must be written using the same file encoding. For example, you cannot compare a file written in Shift-JIS to a file written in UTF-16.

When first run, SiberMerge creates two files, .ccm_merge.enc and .ccm_merge.dat.

The file named .ccm_merge.enc is located in your (UNIX) home or (Windows) profile directory and contains a list of file encodings that are offered in the encoding menus. Initially, the list includes all supported encodings; you can shorten the menus by deleting encodings that you do not use.

The file named .ccm_merge.dat is located in your (UNIX) home or (Windows) profile directory and contains the set of default compare options, such as whether or not to ignore spaces, etc. You can edit this file to modify your default compare options.


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