On Friday 30 May 2003 7:13 am, Len Lawrence wrote: > On Thu, 29 May 2003 08:33:26 +0100 > > Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 29 May 2003 3:42 am, Joe Hill wrote: > > > On Tue, 27 May 2003 08:12:10 +0100 > > > > > > Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > > Right. Now I'm totally ignorant on this. IIRC you started with > > 'cvs'? What exactly is this? It seems to be something later > > than cooker versions but not yet supported - or am I on the wrong > > track altogether? > > CVS - The VS stands for versioning system I think - the C might be > "coordinated" or "cooperative". It is something we used up at the > Royal Observatory Edinburgh for software development projects under > UNIX. Never really got the hang of it. It is supposed to provide a > standardized way for members of a group to maintain, synchronize, > and backup their efforts. The system may hold several snapshots of > the programmers' work, including documentation, with all the roots > and branches, making it possible to recover a complete version at > any stage or even summarize the history of the project. I dimly > recall that CVS was based on an earlier system called RCS (?).
Thanks - oh and BTW, I love the sig <g> Anne
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