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Index of Subjects Greetings, On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Michael Smith wrote: > RCS seems to cause occasional problems for FTP and online users alike. I must be one of the few users who have never really had many problems with RCS (or at least problems that I couldn't fix). ;-> On the other hand, I don't have any particular fondness for it either. > * in a single-editor site, RCS is useless since we've never developed a > user interface to support user access to it. RCS is great for version > control of Chebucto scripts and documents, but most IPs will never know > about it until it gets in the way. This is the salient point to me. My understand was always that RCS had all this great potential: it just awaited a user interface to be built. It hasn't happened in seven years so I gues we can conclude that it wont. > * RCS takes up a lot of space (50 megs between NSChess and FSCNS alone) Another important point. Also many CCN editors don't routinely discard RCS/*.html,v files after discarding the original file itself so these accumulate ad infinitum. > I'm thinking we can just modify the editing and IP-FTP scripts not to > use RCS if an RCS directory doesn't already exist. That way new IPs won't > have RCS, and we can slowly phase it out where it isn't needed, and keep > it where it's useful (Chebucto stuff). If we can work without it, where and for what purposes can people still see a need for it? Also, I'm ashamed to say I can't recall what the purpose of the *.html~ files is. They seem to linger for inordinate periods of time these days. Cheers! Chris _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. Christopher Majka <aa051@chebucto.ns.ca> Editor-in-Chief: Chebucto Community Net - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada URL = http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Home.html _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._.
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