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[mike d. <md...@st...>]

hi-

i've been working a lot today with JDiff and have made decent progress,
but since i haven't been able to access cvs.jdiff... for a while, i can't
commit any changes.

so far, i've added labels above the left and right text areas to indicate
the file names. i have also integrated Java getopt and started the
argument handling code. i need to do some more work before i can make
stuff like --ignore-case and --ignore-space-change work, but it shouldn't
be too hard. i'm hoping to implement a large portion of those GNU diff
command line options that are appropriate to JDiff.

another thing i've been interested in is getting this to work as a command
line tool. i've already implemented the "-" file name functionality to
compare a file to System.in so '|' and '<' should work. also, while i was
originally testing Stuart's diff code, i hacked up a simple merged print
mode and an emulation of the default diff(1) output. so, the output is
pretty straightforward, but how do we toggle between console and GUI mode?
we could add a long option '--console' to use JDiff in text-only mode. if
i add user properties at some point, people could then put "console=true"
in their properties file to default to text mode.

-md