Re: finding similar files

2009-03-02 Thread Mike Castle
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:09 PM, wrote: > What kind of an upgrade are you looking for? Upgrade on the Debian side. It looks like the Debian package might be a version of two behind. mrc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: finding similar files

2009-02-27 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:05:15AM -0800, Mike Castle wrote: > similarity-tester looks promising. Without much research, it looks > like it might be a slightly older version of: > http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dick/sim.html (if it turns out that it is, maybe > you can poke the maintainer into doing an up

Solved! Re: finding similar files

2009-02-27 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:05:15AM -0800, Mike Castle wrote: > similarity-tester looks promising. Without much research, it looks > like it might be a slightly older version of: > http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dick/sim.html (if it turns out that it is, maybe > you can poke the maintainer into doing an up

Re: finding similar files

2009-02-27 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: jvpe...@web.de >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: finding similar files >Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:12:05 +0100 > >>Maybe searching for "plagiarism detection" or "finding similarities"

Re: finding similar files

2009-02-27 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Maybe searching for "plagiarism detection" or "finding similarities" on the internet could show some usefull software. Besides the one mentioned by Mike Castle, of this type is, e.g., JPlag http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de:/. Here are also some sources listed: Plagiarism detection - Wikipedia, the fre

Re: finding similar files

2009-02-27 Thread Mike Castle
similarity-tester looks promising. Without much research, it looks like it might be a slightly older version of: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dick/sim.html (if it turns out that it is, maybe you can poke the maintainer into doing an upgrade?) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi

RE: finding similar files

2009-02-27 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: Eric Gerlach [mailto:egerl...@feds.uwaterloo.ca] > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 11:03 AM > Subject: Re: finding similar files > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 06:58:48PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > There wouldn't happen to be any handy tools for searching a dir

Re: finding similar files

2009-02-27 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 06:58:48PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > There wouldn't happen to be any handy tools for searching a directory > tree with a few hundred ASCII files and telling me which ones have > similar content? > > Many have been copied, edited, merged, reformatted, split, and I'd lik

Re: finding similar files

2009-02-26 Thread T o n g
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:58:48 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > There wouldn't happen to be any handy tools for searching a directory > tree with a few hundred ASCII files and telling me which ones have > similar content? Yes, such tools exist. They are called AI tools, Artificial Intelligent. Debian

Re: finding similar files

2009-02-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Hendrik Boom: > > There wouldn't happen to be any handy tools for searching a directory > tree with a few hundred ASCII files and telling me which ones have > similar content? I don't know about any tools ready for use, but if your files aren't too large you could build something out of my (or a