Download Beyond Compare 3.3.4 build 14431

Scooter Software has released version 3.3.4 of Beyond Compare. With this very extensive program, which is available for Windows and Linux, files can be compared with each other. In addition, it is possible to compare complete folders, ftp locations and archives. Beyond Compare is available in a standard and a pro version, for Prices that start at thirty dollars. The mutual differences can be this page are being found. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

Notable Changes

• Fixed context menus on newer versions of Konqueror, Thunar, and Nautilus.
• FILE-REPORT (and TEXT-REPORT, etc.) commands will now accept a saved file compare session name instead of a pair of files. Eg, “file-report layout:side-by-side output-to:printer MySession”.

Archives

• Fixed extracting files where a single deflate block contains more than 1MB of data.
• Fixed zips showing non-existent files if a zip contained another zip and the outer one had additional data after the archive comment.
• Attempting to extract a file from a zip using an unsupported compression algorithm now shows that as an error.
• Split up zip error messages for “Error during extraction” and “Unsupported compression algorithm”.

Dates Compare

• Fixed “Extract HTML table(s)” handling of UTF-16 files.

File Formats

• OpenOffice default character encoding is now UTF-8.
• Fixed “COBOL Source” format to include “Identifier” definition.
• “Picture Files” format added CUT, GED, MSK, PFR, and TUB to mask, removed PAL.

File Views

• Fixed saving files with paths between 247-259 characters long.
• Fixed foreground selection coloring when using white on blue system colors.
• Added key accelerators to “Save changes” dialog.

Folder Compare

• Long file operations will now keep Windows from going to sleep due to inactivity.
• Using “Compare to” to open a file view and then using “Next/Previous Difference Files” now closes the file view.

FTP

• Fixed support for FTP listings with filenames containing Chinese month/year characters.
• Fixed parsing Comau C5G FTP listings.

Home View

• When editing a session, dropped files/folders are ignored unless they’re on a path edit.
• Expand All and Collapse All commands now affect the shared and auto-saved sessions nodes.
• Fixed behavior when using “Collapse All” hides the currently selected session.

Linux

• Fixed context menus on newer versions of Konqueror, Thunar, and Nautilus.
• Fixed Folder Compare crash when performing rules-based comparisons.
• Fixed clicking the “Next Difference Files” link on the message panel when using “Next Difference” at the end of a comparison.
• Fixed various combo boxes incorrectly allowing editing.

misc

• Fixed menu checkboxes not showing on Vista and Windows 7 when using the Classic Theme.
• Dropping files/folders onto a path edit no longer changes the edit if the drop results in a new view.
• Added “RE Examples” buttons to Grammar Item dialog.
• Improved Open/Save dialog handling or file type options.

Options

• “Customize Commands” dialog’s “Default” command now checks to see if shortcut is already in use.

Picture Compare

• “Difference Offset”, “Flip”, and “Rotate” are now persistent session settings.
• Fixed handling of DIB, MSK, and RLE bitmap files.

Registry Compare

• Fixed loading .reg files with a ‘\’ before hex data.
• Fixed loading .reg files with a ‘]’ in a key name.

scripting

• FILE-REPORT (and TEXT-REPORT, etc.) commands will now accept a saved file compare session name instead of a pair of files. Eg, “file-report layout:side-by-side output-to:printer MySession”.
• LOG command will now create the target folder if it doesn’t exist.
• Fixed support for STRIKEOUT-RIGHT-ORPHANS in TEXT-REPORT command.