This is SIM, Software similarity tester, most recent revision (2.7, 930222). by Dick Grune, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (dick@cs.vu.nl). SIM tests lexical similarity in texts in C, Pascal, Modula-2, Lisp and natural language. It is used - to detect potentially duplicated code fragments in large software projects, - to detect plagiarism in software projects, educational and otherwise. It is available for UNIX (in source code) and MSDOS (executables only). UNIX: To obtain the files, do: gunzip sim_2_7.shar.gz sh sim_2_7.shar This unpacks the sources, the Makefile, sim.1 and READ_ME. For installation notes and other info then see READ_ME. MSDOS: To obtain the files, do: [pk]unzip SIM_2_7.zip This unpacks the executables, SIM.DOC and READ.ME. For other info then see READ.ME. Changes from Release 1.21, as posted in comp.sources.unix (1987): Ported to MSDOS Significant speed improvements New options: -e, -S and / , to compare files group-wise New option: -F , to require function names to match exactly Lisp version added Miscellaneous improvements Changes from Release 1.6, as posted in comp.sources.unix (1985/6): Modula-2 version added Text version added Better (correct) parsing of comments in C Dick Grune Vrije Universiteit de Boelelaan 1081 1081 HV Amsterdam the Netherlands email: dick@cs.vu.nl ftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/pub/dick http://www.cs.vu.nl/users/staff/dick/home.html