Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site ea.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ea!kel From: kel@ea.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: question: any milti generation unix - (nf) Message-ID: <13400011@ea.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Aug-84 17:23:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ea.13400011 Posted: Wed Aug 1 17:23:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Aug-84 01:59:34 EDT References: <925@ulysses.UUCP> Lines: 16 Nf-ID: #R:ulysses:-92500:ea:13400011:000:472 Nf-From: ea!kel Aug 1 16:23:00 1984 #R:ulysses:-92500:ea:13400011:000:472 ea!kel Aug 1 16:23:00 1984 [ritual offering] As an alternative to SCCS, you might check up on Walter Tichy's (at Purdue) Revision Control System (RCS), which is after the pattern of SCCS, but slicker. It's still not automatic multi-generation files, but it doesn't require you to put obnoxious junk in your source files to work right. I'm not very familiar with SCCS, but RCS is reasonably fast, space efficient, and provides for very good documentation of saved versions if you want. Ken