Re: [BLACKBOX] Version Control

From: Douglas G. Danforth <"Douglas>
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:51:04 -0800

----boundary-LibPST-iamunique-806934110_-_- Content-type: text/plain Aubrey, My comment will not help you but I thought I would throw it out there anyway. The Digital PDP/10 computer came with the Tenex operating system. That operating system ALWAYS put version numbers on every file that was created, e.g. Myfile.c;3 (;3) specifies the version number. This was both a boon and a bane. Boon because it corrected quite nicely for 'oops' and allowed one to go back through the history of the files. It was a bane because too many files were created and one ended up deleting most of them anyway. -Doug Aubrey.McIntosh{([at]})nowhere.xy Oh, I am unfocused and this will ramble. Please feel free to skip. I have a program, Gather, that I first coded many years ago. It reads source, and understands the IMPORT assignment. I had thought it to be a mature program, that the only wrinkles in using it were documentation and user understanding issues. ... ---- To unsubscribe, send a message with body "SIGNOFF BLACKBOX" to LISTSERV{([at]})nowhere.xy ----boundary-LibPST-iamunique-806934110_-_- Content-type: application/rtf Content-transfer-encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="rtf-body.rtf" e1xydGYxXGFuc2lcYW5zaWNwZzEyNTJcZnJvbWh0bWwxIFxkZWZmMHtcZm9udHRibA0Ke1xmMFxm c3dpc3NcZmNoYXJzZXQwIEFyaWFsO30NCntcZjFcZm1vZGVybiBDb3VyaWVyIE5ldzt9DQp7XGYy XGZuaWxcZmNoYXJzZXQyIFN5bWJvbDt9DQp7XGYzXGZtb2Rlcm5cZmNoYXJzZXQwIENvdXJpZXIg TmV3O319DQp7XGNvbG9ydGJsXHJlZDBcZ3JlZW4wXGJsdWUwO1xyZWQwXGdyZWVuMFxibHVlMjU1 O30NClx1YzFccGFyZFxwbGFpblxkZWZ0YWIzNjAgXGYwXGZzMjQgDQp7XCpcaHRtbHRhZzI0MyA8 IURPQ1RZUEUgaHRtbCBQVUJMSUMgIi0vL1czQy8vRFREIEhUTUwgNC4wMSBUcmFuc2l0aW9uYWwv L0VOIj59DQp7XCpcaHRtbHRhZzMgXHBhciB9DQp7XCpcaHRtbHRhZzE5IDxodG1sPn0NCntcKlxo 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