You might want to download Apples developer tools(XCode) If you sign up as a free developer you can download it for free from Developer.Apple.Com. Inside of the folder Developer/Applications/Utilities there is a nice little program called FileMerge which displays things side by side in a nice manner.
-Mark
On Feb 12, 2012, at 8:23 PM, Nobumi Iyanaga wrote:
> Hello Mark,
>
> Thank you very much for all your help!
>
> I ended up with the following script:
>
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>
> property script_fname : "DocComp.sh" -- your "external script" name -- by Kino, 2006-05-20
>
> property file_1 : ""
> property runtime : 0
> property firsttime : "yes"
> property firstfile_passed : "no"
> property secondfile_passed : "no"
> property filetypes : {".txt", ".html", ".rtf", ".rtfd", ".doc", ".docx", ".wordml", ".odt", ".webarchive", ".xml"}
>
> on idle
> if runtime < (current date) - 5 * minutes then
> set file_1 to ""
> quit
> end if
> return 1
> end idle
>
> on open (droppedItemsList)
> set my_path to POSIX path of (path to me)
> set shell_scpt to quoted form of (my_path & "Contents/Resources/" & script_fname)
>
> set runtime to current date
> if (number of droppedItemsList) ≥ 3 then
> display dialog "This droplet accepts two files."
> return quit
> else if (number of droppedItemsList) = 1 then
> if firsttime = "yes" then
> display dialog "Please drop another file..."
> set firsttime to "no"
> end if
> if file_1 = "" then
> set file_1 to first item of (droppedItemsList)
> set file_1 to POSIX path of file_1
> return
> else
> set file_2 to first item of (droppedItemsList)
> set file_2 to POSIX path of file_2
> end if
> else if (number of droppedItemsList) = 2 then
> set file_1 to first item of (droppedItemsList)
> set file_1 to POSIX path of file_1
>
> set file_2 to second item of (droppedItemsList)
> set file_2 to POSIX path of file_2
> end if
> if file_1 = file_2 then
> display dialog "You have chosen the same file. Quitting..."
> return quit
> end if
>
> repeat with i in filetypes
> if file_1 ends with i then
> set firstfile_passed to "yes"
> end if
> if file_2 ends with i then
> set secondfile_passed to "yes"
> end if
> end repeat
>
> set thename_1 to do shell script "basename " & quoted form of file_1
> set thename_2 to do shell script "basename " & quoted form of file_2
>
> if firstfile_passed = "no" then
> display dialog "The first file \"" & thename_1 & "\" is not of the supported types. Quitting..."
> return quit
> end if
>
> if secondfile_passed = "no" then
> display dialog "The second file \"" & thename_2 & "\" is not of the supported types. Quitting..."
> return quit
> end if
>
> display dialog "Comparing " & return & thename_1 & return & "with " & return & thename_2
>
> try
> do shell script "/bin/sh " & shell_scpt & space & quoted form of file_1 & space & quoted form of file_2
> --set res to the result
> on error errMsg
> display dialog "An error occurred: " & errMsg
> end try
>
> set file_1 to ""
> set file_2 to ""
> set firsttime to "yes"
> set firstfile_passed to "no"
> set secondfile_passed to "no"
> quit
> end open
>
> -------
>
> The "DocComp.sh" compares two files (of different types) with Unix diff, and displays the result in a nice (readable) rtf file with TextEdit. I will upload the result in my web site, when my friend, Kino, will give me the permission.
>
> Thank you very much again!
>
> Best regard,
>
> Nobumi Iyanaga
> Tokyo,
> Japan
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