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Subject: Blocks vs Text files
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Date: 20 Jan 91 15:25:20 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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 Date: 01-13-91 (22:17)              Number: 880 of 891 (Echo)
   To: B.RODRIGUEZ2 [BRAD]           Refer#: 829
 From: STEVE WHEELER                   Read: NO
 Subj: SOURCE CODE CONTROL           Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
 Conf: FORTH (58)                 Read Type: GENERAL (+)

 Here at Vesta we have been using Polytron's version control system (PVCS
 is a commercial product) for a few projects.  We have used it for Forth
 source in both block files and text files.  I like it much, and intend
 to start using RCS on our non-Messy-Dos systems, but there are a few
 caveats ...

 With block files, you can't take advantage of the capabilities to
 time/date/etc. stamp the files as to when they were taken from the
 archive, nor can you maintain in the source the revision comments
 maintained by the version control system.  With text files, this may not
 be a problem (PVCS allows you to specify the comment prefix based on
 file extension, so "\ " for *.4TH works nicely.

 We're moving to using it for maintaining revision control on code,
 documentation, and anything else we keep around and revise.  Sometimes,
 being able to recover a previous version of something (prior to
 improvements and enhancements which failed) can save a project (or an
 ass ...)

  - Wheels

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