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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 21 May 2002.
Re: [QUIZ] Find the difference

Re: [QUIZ] Find the difference

Markus Gebhard <ukg...@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote in message news:<3CE...@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>...
> Faux_Pseudo wrote:
> > 
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> > - --(Once apon a time, in alt.ascii-art,)--
> >                 --(Michele Cerulli said it like only they can.)--
> > >
> > > Well the "diff" command is not that smart, it didn't identify
> > > the difference between the two hotels that are hidden by the snow.
> > > If we look more closer we find:
> > >
> > >  *      *    :   *      *      *     *  *
> > >       *    *  :              *    *
> > >   *      *   .  *        *      *   *  *
> > > * ___*_____*_[]_       * ___*_____*_[]_
> > >  /______________\*      /______________\*
> > > *|  []  []  []  |      *|  []  []  []  |
> > >  |  __ MC HOTEL |*      |  __ MC HOTEL |*
> > > _|__||__[]__[]__|_     _|__||__[]__[]__|_
> > >
> > >    ** Italy **            ** Canada **
> > >
> > > What is the difference between the two hotels?
> > 
> > Indead that one does not work as well with diff.
> > 
> > diff file file2
> > 1,3c1,3
> > <  *      *    :   *
> > <       *    *  :
> > <   *      *   .  *
> > - ---
> > >  *      *     *  *
> > >       *    *
> > >   *      *   *  *
> > 10c10
> > <    ** Italy **
> > - ---
> > >   ** Canada **
> > 
> > But I know a perl script exists that could diff them down to the exact
> > differancs.  But it wouldn't be very human readable.
> 
> Hey cool - a job where the difference-feature in JavE is useful:
>  1. select the right hotel
>  2. choose the layer mode "difference"
>  3. move the selected hotel to the left over the other hotel
>  4. past the selection by right clicking somewhere else
> And the result is:
>         :*
>          :
>         *
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  Canada* *
> 
> And I already thought about removing that option from the selection tool
> :)
> 
> Markus

I really like JavE, but I must admit that in this case it fails:
the difference that you found out it is only a surface one; the
big difference between the two hotels is the fact that in Italy
the central heating is ON, while in Canada it is OFF and averyone
is freezing!

                 Michele

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