On 22 Jun 2000, at 13:53, Darryl VanDorp wrote:
>I have a question for all you CVS gurus.
>
>I would like to when commiting a file to
>have a short text file written to in the
>same directory which contains the tag of file.
I think you would have to have a wrapper script around cvs to do this.
>The reason for this is (yes it's an obscure reason)
>that i have MS Word docs in CVS that I would like
>to add the current issue number to a footer automagically.
>I can add the text file as an external file and have it print
>the tag every time i print the file to get the current
>Issue number (release #)
>
You may be able to call some routine in the WinCVS DLL to get this information
from Visual Basic for Applications.
It's a while since I did any VBA but I seem to remember you could call functions
in DLLs
Hope this helps,
Mike
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