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From: marc@hpltca.HP (Marc Clarke)
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Subject: Using RCS for manuscripts
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Date: Tue, 30-Dec-86 18:27:26 EST
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I use the technique you suggest all the time.  While I am I SCCS fan,
RCS would work equally well.  Each section of the document resides in a
controlled source code file, and I use the "make" utility to grab the
most current version of any portion of the document.  The troff master
document is just a bunch of include statements to pull in the files.

You can get quite a bit sexier (printing specific versions of the
document) by synchronizing the version numbering of the particular
sections.

Marc Clarke, Hewlett-Packard, Loveland, Colorado
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