<spanclass="emphasis"><em>To err is human, but to really mess things up you need a computer.</em></span>
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So this is what this program can do for you: <spanclass="application">KDiff3</span> ...
</p><divclass="itemizedlist"><ultype="disc"><li><p>... reads and compares two or three directories recursively,</p></li><li><p>... takes special care of symbolic links,</p></li><li><p>... lets you browse files on mouse double click,</p></li><li><p>... for each item proposes a merge operation, which you can change
before starting the directory merge,</p></li><li><p>... lets you simulate the merge and lists the actions that would
take place, without actually doing them,</p></li><li><p>... lets you really do the merge, and lets you interact whenever
manual interaction is needed,</p></li><li><p>... lets you run the selected operation for all items (key F7) or the selected item (key F6),</p></li><li><p>... lets you continue the merge after manual interaction with key F7,</p></li><li><p>... optionally creates backups, with the ".orig" extension,</p></li><li><p>...</p></li></ul></div></div></div><divstyle="background-color: #white; color: black; margin-top: 20px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;"><divstyle="position: absolute; left: 20px;"><aaccesskey="p"href="preprocessors.html">Prev</a></div><divstyle="position: absolute; right: 20px;"><aaccesskey="n"href="startingdirmerge.html">Next</a></div><divalign="center"><aaccesskey="h"href="index.html">Home</a></div></div><divstyle="background-color: #white; color: black; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;"><divclass="navLeft">Preprocessor Commands</div><divclass="navRight">Starting Directory Comparison Or Merge</div><divclass="navCenter"><aaccesskey="u"href="index.html">Up</a></div></div><br><br><divclass="bannerBottom"style="background-image: url(help:/common/bottom-middle.png); background-repeat: x-repeat; width: 100%; height: 100px; bottom:0px;"><divclass="BannerBottomRight"><imgsrc="help:/common/bottom-right.png"style="margin: 0px"alt=""></div><divclass="bannerBottomLeft"><imgsrc="help:/common/bottom-left.png"style="margin: 0px;"alt=""></div><divid="comments"style="position:relative; top: 5px; left: 1em; height:85px; width: 50%; color: #cfe1f6"><p>Would you like to make a comment or contribute an update to this page?<br>
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