(Paul Edwards >> Bek Oberin)

PE>> So anyway, for anyone doing program maintenance, and who
PE>> wants a free tool, get hold of RCS and CVS.  I use it at
PE>> work too, on Unix.  BFN.  Paul.

BO>> What do they each do?

 PE> Well, just use them together, and what they allow you to do is
 PE> develop a file, e.g. test.c, and then whenever you make some
 PE> changes and you want to save them, you just commit it, and it
 PE> just stores the difference between the last one and this one,
 PE> so you can regress back to an old version if something goes
 PE> wrong with the new.  You get to keep a log of the changes, get
 PE> to see the differences between two dates, etc.  Much better
 PE> than flying blind, which is what I've always done in the past.

This is most definately something I need (says she who spent half of
yesterday afternoon de-constructing a changed file which refused to work in
it's changed state).  Where can I get it again?


Bek

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