.TH "KDIFF3" "1" 
.SH "NAME" 
KDiff3 \(em compares two or three input files or directories 
.SH "SYNOPSIS" 
.PP 
\fBKDiff3\fR [\fBQT options\fP]  [\fBKDE options\fP]  [\fBKDiff3 options\fP]  [\fB\fIFile1/base\fR\fP]  [\fB\fIFile2\fR\fP]  [\fB\fIFile3\fR\fP]  
.SH "DESCRIPTION" 
.PP 
This manual page documents briefly the 
\fBKDiff3\fR tool. 
.PP 
This manual page was written for the \fBDebian\fP distribution 
because the original program does not have a manual page. 
For comprehensive help, please see \fBkhelpcenter help:/kdiff3\fR. 
 
.PP 
\fBKDiff3\fR is a program that 
 
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compares or merges two or three text input files or directories 
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shows the differences line by line and character by character 
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provides an automatic merge-facility and 
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an integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts 
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supports Unicode, UTF-8 and other codecs 
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supports KIO on KDE (allows accessing ftp, sftp, fish, smb etc.) 
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Printing of differences 
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Manual alignment of lines 
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Automatic merging of version control history ($Log$) 	 
.SH "OPTIONS" 
.PP 
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, 
with long options starting with two dashes (`\-').  A summary of 
options is included below. For a full summary of options, run 
\fBKDiff3 \-\-help\fR. 
 
.IP "\fB-m, \-\-merge\fP         " 10 
Merge the input. 
.IP "\fB-b, \-\-base file\fP         " 10 
Explicit base file. For compatibility with certain tools. 
.IP "\fB-o, \-\-output file\fP         " 10 
Output file. Implies \-m. E.g.: \-o newfile.txt 
.IP "\fB\-\-out file\fP         " 10 
Output file, again. (For compatibility with certain tools.) 
.IP "\fB\-\-auto\fP         " 10 
No GUI if all conflicts are auto-solvable. (Needs \-o file) 
.IP "\fB\-\-qall\fP         " 10 
Don't solve conflicts automatically. (For compatibility...) 
.IP "\fB-L1 alias\fP 		  " 10 
Visible name replacement for first file/base file. 
.IP "\fB-L2 alias\fP 		  " 10 
Visible name replacement for second file. 
.IP "\fB-L3 alias\fP 		  " 10 
Visible name replacement for third file. 
.IP "\fB-L, \-\-fname alias\fP 		  " 10 
Visible name replacement. May by supplied for each input. 
.IP "\fB\-\-cs string\fP 		  " 10 
Change a setting, e. g. \-\-cs "AutoAdvance=1". 
.IP "\fB\-\-confighelp\fP 		  " 10 
Show a list of all settings and their values. 
.IP "\fB\-\-config file \fP 		  " 10 
Use a different settings file. 
.IP "\fB\-\-author\fP 		  " 10 
Show author of program. 
.IP "\fB-v, \-\-version\fP 		  " 10 
Show version of program. 
.IP "\fB\-\-license\fP 		  " 10 
Show license of program. 
.SH "AUTHOR" 
.PP 
This manual page was written by Eike Sauer <eike@debian.org> for 
the \fBDebian\fP system (but may be used by others).  Permission is 
granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under 
the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 
(or, at your option, any later version published by the Free 
Software Foundation). 
 
.PP 
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public 
License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. 
 
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