--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, andrewbroad wrote:

>
> > In fact, there are no spaces in the room name between the words and
> > the arrows, but I misspelled it when writing my message.
>

> You need SPECSAISIE's RoomsJSW function!

jetsetdanny wrote:

> I remember about it, but I decided that I will write the room names down one by one more quickly than if > I had to devote time to installing SPECSAISIE and then used this function.

> The problem is, so far I have *never* been able to install SPECAISIE or get it to run successfully

> (whichever is a more accurate description), and I tried it (a while ago) at least three times on different

> computers with different OS. 

> I will certainly try it again in the future, because I see many wonderfully useful features there. However,

> I think I will get down to it only some time after "JSW: The 2010 Megamix" has been gamma-released.

> Unless I am successful at the first attempt, expect questions about the installation of SPECSAISIE

> then.

> Daniel

Well, six and a half years later I am thrilled to report that I have managed to run Andrew Broad's SPECSAISIE for the first time ever, and I've managed to compare two SNA files using it!  

 

It happened after quite a long struggle with getting it to run, going through the installation of Java JDK, setting the correct PATH variable, creating a Compare.class file from the Compare.java file, and consulting various internet tutorials along the way. All this on a Windows 10 system. I used SPECSAISIE 1.2.

 

The tool is not perfectly user-friendly as far as I'm concerned - the results are displayed in decimal (only) in the Command window (and so have to be copied manually, I believe) - but IT WORKS! It's done its job and delivered exactly what I needed  .

A big thanks to Andrew Broad for it , and it's a shame SPECSAISIE - which has many other useful functions in addition to Compare - hasn't been developed further as per plans for it which once existed...

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