Controls whether the differing lines from the two files are formatted side by side. If you specify /PARALLEL, the differences from the first file are displayed on the left and the differences from the second file are displayed on the right. The heading of the differences report displays the file specification of the first file on the left and the file specification of the second file on the right. By default, the width of the listing is 132. Use the /WIDTH qualifier to control the width. Vertical lines separate the text on the left side of the report from the text on the right side. The text from each of the files is allotted equal space (half the width of the full report). If a line from one of the files being compared is longer than half the width of the full report, the line is truncated on the right. An asterisk (*) is printed at the end of the line to indicate that the line has been truncated.