Re: is it possible to compare your file with the "remote" version

On Sunday 25 May 2008 11:25:13 am Andras Mantia wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 May 2008, Jordi Moles Blanco wrote:
> > Well, the thing is... sometimes i need to compare the "local" version
> > with the "online" version before i upload the local version. Is it
> > possible to do that with quanta? I've installed "kompare", but as far
> > i've seen, i can't compare a "local" file with one located in a
> > external server through the ftp protocol.
>
> Sincerely I don't know if kompare works for remote files or not. It is
> used in Quanta if a file was modified outside the editor, but it is not
> used to compare the uploaded files with the local ones.
> To do this, you would need to either try kompare as a standalone app, or
> write some script that does the comparision and displays the result in
> the standard output. You can configure Quanta to run this script on a file
> or the full project and see the result in the message output view.
>
> Andras

Kompare works fine with remote files, as it shouild since it's a KDE app. ;-)

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Eric Laffoon
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