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From: mark@mimsy.UUCP (Mark Weiser)
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Subject: Re: Using RCS for manuscripts
Message-ID: <4876@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Dec-86 19:55:45 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 22 19:55:45 1986
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In article <2544@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>
>	This is sort of a funny question, but I'd like to know what kinds
>of experiences people have had using RCS to maintain text documents (as
>opposed to source code)
>Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy

I used RCS for text for a time, but then discovered that it cost more
storage than just keeping the old versions around directly.  Apparently,
the way I edit my papers causes almost every line to change, and
RCS hurt rather than helped, in a compression sense.
-mark
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