Mike Hord wrote: > Does anyone know a good free file compare utility for ASCII files? > > The feature that I really need is a specifiable comment character- > i.e., "lines that start with ' should be excluded from comparison > until a new line is reached". I'm recommenting and refactoring > old code, So why do you want to exclude comments? They are a important part of code, and changes in comments are just as important as changes in the executable code. If you just want to get everything into consistent formatting before the compare, my COPYA program converts hard tabs (a bad idea anyway) to spaces with arbitrary tab stops. My ALIGN_COMMENTS program lines up comments in a particular column, and can understand various line end end of line comment types. If this is MPASM code, my ASPIC_FIX program aligns everything, including comments, into fixed columns and also removes hard spaces in a single pass. ******************************************************************** Embed Inc, Littleton Massachusetts, http://www.embedinc.com/products (978) 742-9014. Gold level PIC consultants since 2000. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist