The line ending importance is controlled per session/instance. Here's a quick KB article that should help: We fully support both ignoring the line endings, and 'forcing' theīinary compare on the folder compare level without needing to double The previous post mentioned is actually requesting to ignore lineĮndings and compare text regardless of where it breaks. Now I also found in the Scooter forums that you can ignore unimportant differences and that may indeed help you. Shell programs, in particular, will fail in mysterious ways if they However, you must test your programs on CDF before you submit them. Machine and CDF, you should not have to worry about line endings. If you only use CVS to transfer files between your home IMPORTANT: You must submit files in the CVS directory with Unix/Linuxįile endings. You can run the program, or you can copy it to your own bin directory. You can set your path to include this directory so that Perl program called dos2unix that will conver DOS line endings to Unix In the directory /u/csc207h/winter/pub/bin, you will find a little The CDF staff have written a thorough explanation of converting You need to be careful about transferringįiles between Windows machines and Unix machines to make sure the line DOS usesĬarriage return and line feed ("\r\n") as a line ending, which Unix Have different line endings than files created on Unix/Linux. Unix Line Endings Text files created on DOS/Windows machines Windows (DOS) uses CR/LF at the end of line and Unix just uses LF. The files are not the same which is why Beyond Compare does not see them as the same. They are the same, but one exported from Windows, and another one from
I am using BeyondCompare 4 on Windows 10 to compare two directories