[SGVLUG] How to find files/messages that are "almost" the same

David Lawyer dave at lafn.org
Sun Apr 19 21:42:55 PDT 2009


On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 08:50:13AM -0700, Emerson, Tom (*IC) wrote:
> One more reason to dislike certain email clients: using automation
> to sort e-mails can end up with "duplicates" in multiple folders,
> however these are not-quite-perfect duplicates, so a binary
> comparison will see them as distinct messages when in fact the
> /content/ is the same.
> 

> Does anyone know of a product or program that would ignore small
> differences (such as an extra space at the end of a line) when
> comparing the body/text of a message?

> 
> 
> 
			David Lawyer


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