| From: | Richard Lane |
| Date: | 10 Sep 2000 at 12:32:09 |
| Subject: | Re: AmigaGuide |
Hello Andrew
On 09-Sep-00, Andrew Bell wrote:
>> Take a look at the file ":ftree/guide/RCS/ftree.guide,v" in a text
>> viewer and you'll see that the begining of the file has loads of odd
>> junk in it and the where there should be single "@"'s there's two
>> "@@". Even Heddley wont load it, and that's fairly tolerant of
>> faults in guides.
>
> This is an RCS (Revision Control System) repository. Basically it's a
> specially formatted text file that stores information on multiple
> revisions of a text file. RCS files normally end with ",v".
Aha, so that's what it is. Thanks for clearing up that mystery. I just thought
that it had been mangled up by something.
> RCS is commonly used by programmers to maintain and track source code
> revisions. RCS can be used with any text files that are revised
> regularly. Such as HTML, Readmes and in this case AmigaGuides.
Sounds interesting, might give it a look.
> You need to use RCS to "check out" the latest revision of the
> AmigaGuide from this repository.
I'm assuming that RCS is on Aminet? Or is it a commercial program?
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