web site change monitoring tool recommendations?

Tom Buskey tom at buskey.name
Thu Sep 14 08:28:00 EDT 2006


It must be good if Paul recommends it over something built into emacs....

On 9/13/06, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
> "Tom Buskey" <tom at buskey.name> writes:
>
> > Quick & dirty:
> >
> > Reduce the files to plain old text
> > lynx -dump http://......... > file1
> > lynx -dump http://......... > file2
> >
> > tkdiff file1 file2
> >
> > Subsititute any other visual differ that does side by side
> > comparision.
>
> I find xxdiff to be one of the best visual diffs out there. It
> supposedly runs on MacOS X, but I can't seem to get the fink package
> to work.  We use it at work with Perforce and it works really well.  I
> know of people who use it with ClearCase as well in place of CC's diff
> output (though xxdiff is just a diff visualizer, and it is often
> configured to use cleardiff under the covers).
>
> --
> Seeya,
> Paul
>



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