Actually, I am familiar with RCS, and use it at most of my clients (or try =
to=20
if the programmers will use it, many insist or try to use cvs instead... it=
's=20
not the same), but my particular needs for this file would somewhat preclud=
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RCS.  Good thought though, and I will give your guide a once over.

anthony

On Wednesday 04 February 2004 03:56 am, der.hans wrote:
> Am 03. Feb, 2004 schw=E4tzte tickticker so:
> > I have a text file that I would like to update fairly regularly, let's
> > call it Update.  Every time I update it, I make a copy of it in the form
> > of Update_<today's-date>
> > so that I have a historical record of what shape the file was in every
> > time I updated it.
>
> OK, now that you know how to do this in shell, I'll suggest a completely
> different mechanism :). See my "guide to RCS".
>
> https://www.LuftHans.com/unix/
>
> That way the changes don't litter the filesystem.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans