COMPTEXT(1)

💖 comptext — the bestie who compares ur text streams 💖

okay so real quick, this is the manual for comptext, and it lives in section 1 of the User manual. yes bestie, the whole thing. sit down, hydrate, let's go 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

comptext — a GUI-based tool to compare two text streams 💅

like. it's a window. with buttons. and it compares text. iconic behavior honestly.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So comptext is used to compare two text streams, which is exactly what it says on the tin and I respect a tool that doesn't play games. 🎀

The comparison function? It uses a linear-programming technique. no cap. that's the actual vibe of it.

And what do you get out of it, you ask? Three (3) lil numbers, all of them juicy:

• the total number of errors 😭
• the character error rate (CER) ✨
• the bit error rate (BER) 🦋

periodt. that's the whole menu of outputs. it's giving "small but mighty."

🎀 GUI OPTIONS 🎀

these are the buttons, bestie. the whole interface. learn them, love them. 💜

• Expected — hit that button to select the file that has the text stream you're comparing against. this is your reference text, your blueprint, your main character file. 👑
• Received — use this button to select the second text stream file, aka the one you're comparing to the Expected one. it's the challenger. 🥊
• Compare — click it and it performs the comparison between the two text streams. and then — the moment we've all been waiting for — it displays the total number of errors, CER and BER. that's it. that's the payoff. slay. 🔥

ngl the workflow is literally: pick Expected → pick Received → smash Compare → read ur three numbers. that's the entire arc. no side quests. 🌈

cute lil sign-off time 🧚 — this page is from comptext, dated October 2016, and it's page COMPTEXT(1) of the manual. go compare some streams, bestie, you got this 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅🫶