The Diff Formats
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The Format menu enables you to select the display formats:

·Click Friendly Format to display analysis using rich-text friendly format (default mode).  
·Click Diff Format to display analysis using traditional GNU DIFF text format. The following analysis appears:  


   

The normal output contains lines of these forms:

n1 a n3,n4
n1,n2 d n3
n1,n2 c n3,n4

These lines resemble Unix ed utility commands to convert the base file into the revised file. (Identical pairs are abbreviated as a single number.)

Each of these lines are followed by all the lines that are affected in the base file flagged by <, then all the lines that are affected in the revised file flagged by >.