Re: Condensing a series of FAQ versions

Snakes of Medusa (mathew@mantis.co.uk)
17 Jan 1994 12:20:39 -0000

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In article <199401150347.TAA07182@kazoo.cs.berkeley.edu>,
Steven Alexander <stevena@CS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>Though I risk getting lost in the flurry, I'd like to know of a tool
>to condense my monthly series of slowly-changing FAQ versions them
>down to a current version plus a sequence of successive changes, from
>which I can, with a simple command, reconstruct any prior version,
>_and_ bring me to the same state the next month.

You want a version control system. Some UNIX systems are supplied
with one; SCCS. Try man -k sccs. There's also a GNU version called
(I think) GNU RCS.

These tools are primarily meant for managing program source code, but
they can be used for any sort of plain text file.

Similar tools exist on non-UNIX platforms, but will probably cost
money. I use PVCS from Polytron on this DOS machine, and it costs a
fortune and is rather slow and buggy.

mathew

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