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Introduction

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Main Toolbar

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Session Toolbar

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FTP Toolbar

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File Attributes

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Project Manager

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Account Manager

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Browse Remote
System

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Text Conversion Dialog

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Text Conversion Attributes

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Text Conversion Libraries

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Text Conversion Rules

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Text Conversion Batch Mode

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Text Conversion Command Line

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Report

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Diff-and-Merge

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Cross Listings

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Program Options

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Save Program Data

Files tab

This page contains controls used to generate report on selected files.

The items in the right hand side list, order of which can be changed using arrow buttons, stand for file attributes. The Report will list attributes for each file in a tabular format, if you had checked their check boxes. You can also specify gutter amounts between two successive attributes.

List

Contains file attributes that are displayed in report.

Up and

Down Arrow

These allow you to reorder the attributes. For example, you may choose to have the order of File name, Local directory and Remote directory in your report.

Gutter

This allows you to specify gutter between two attributes. For a set of files, if two attributes, say Local directory and File name,  vary in length, then you may desire to have the attributes aligned to left. In that case, the gutter dictates the blanks inserted between the longest directory name and filename afterwards, and for all other cases, necessary blanks are inserted to construct the left alignment. For example, a gutter of 4 between Local directory and File name will appear like this:

C:\test\         file_1

C:\test\look\....look_at_this_file

C:\test\         this_is_file_2

A gutter of 0 no more retains the tabular form. Instead, a concatenation takes place as shown below:

C:\test\file_1

C:\test\look\look_at_this_file

C:\test\this_is_file_2

Copy report to the clip-board

If checked, the generated report is automatically copied to the system clip-board. At this point you can simply paste the report to wherever you want, such as the actual report you are perhaps writing for your co-workers or supervisor. This feature basically saves you a Ctrl+C key-stroke, if you were to copy this text.

Open Interactive Window, if closed

If checked, the Interactive Window, where the report is displayed, is opened automatically. Otherwise, the Interactive Window remains closed, if it was closed, and open, if it was open. Based on your activities, you may prefer one mode to the other.

Reset

Discards user changes made to the list and assigns the default values.

Baskets tab: This page contains controls to generate report from comparing two or more baskets.

Typically, you create a basket and drag-and-drop a local directory into the Files list of TextMaestro. You do the same for another directory and thus create a second basket. Then you select these two baskets to compare them and create a report.

The report determines:

• If the directories are having identical files. If so, you can also ask for a diff between corresponding files.

• If the directories are not found identical, a matrix is constructed that shows addition and deletion of files from version to version.

As an example, if you have three versions of a certain package, you can create three corresponding baskets, with each basket containing its files in flat listing, and create a report where you will see what files were added, deleted or modified from version 1 to version 2 and version 2 to version 3. Note, you may have up to 64 baskets/versions to perform such comparison between i-th and i+1-st version.

(The limit of 64 comes from the size of an unsigned __int64, used to construct the above matrix which keeps track of basket-file association through bit fiddling.)

Compare baskets by examining:

Local directory tree structure.

Remote directory tree structure

If you choose the former - Local directory tree structure, you are basically investigating the directory structure assuming that the files are in local area.

Suppose you have version 1 and version 2 of a package residing in two different locations in the computer and created two baskets that contain the files from these two directories. To perform basket comparison in a case like this, you want Local directory tree structure.

In contrast, if the baskets are listing remote files for two different versions staged in some remote system, possibly two different systems, then you need the latter choice - Remote directory tree structure. Note, to perform such comparison, you do not need to have the files available in local system. Furthermore, since the work is done using remote directory locations, you cannot perform diff between corresponding files. Thus, when you select Remote directory tree structure,

• Files do not need to be in local area.

• Diff between corresponding files is not available.

Match case while parsing:

This allows you to ignore or honor case of filenames and file locations when the tree structure is investigated. It is sometimes useful when you decide that on Windows C:\test\Version1\Include\File1.txt and C:\test\Version2\include\file1.txt are actually the same files for the comparison process. The same holds for VMS, but not for UNIX.

List files common to all Baskets:

This allows you to list files which are found in all baskets.

Consider the following case. You want to compare two (or more) versions of a package where there are tens of thousands of files, most of which are actually present in all versions. You do not care as much what is present in all versions as we care what were added, deleted and modified from version to version. In a case where your interest about the common files varies, you can check off/on this control.

Compare files common to Baskets:

This allows you to verify if a file found in basket i has been modified in basket i + 1. If so, the diff output will be placed in the report. Otherwise, expect no messages, for no news is sometimes good news.