Scrapping RCS

Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 09:21:44 -0300 (ADT)
From: Susan Lilley <LilleyS@chebucto.ns.ca>
To: "David L. Potter" <potter@chebucto.ns.ca>
cc: ccn-tech@chebucto.ns.ca, editors@chebucto.ns.ca
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Good morning,

Here is my two cents worth on RCS, representing a non-technical IP.

I edit the CHPNA website, especially the bulletin boards, almost daily,
and always do it online. I have never kept any backups of any of the CHPNA
website on my computer, as I always knew that if somehow it ever crashed,
there was a back-up system on CCN.

However, having said that, I have never had a clue how to use RCS and my
few attempts at it were unsuccessful. I believe it was mentioned rapidly
in passing in my IP training years ago, but as it isn't something I use
regularly, I didn't learn how to use it. 

A couple of years ago when I made extensive revisions, Carlos told me I
had to remove all of the old files from RCS, and did so for me. Recently,
I tried to do this, I got a message that the files could not be deleted --
so I have a lot of RCS dead wood in both the CHPNA site and the CCN Health
pages.

One time last year I did delete a lot of pages on the CHPNA site and then
wanted to retrieve them. Though I knew they were in RCS, I couldn't figure
out how to get them back into usable form, so did without them.

So, all this to say, that I think having a backup of files on CCN is a
valuable feature, and I would like to see that continued, but RCS has
never been useful to me as it is too complicated for non-technical IPs
like myself. 

Thanks for the opportunity to have my say!
S

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