Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!CORY.BERKELEY.EDU!dillon From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Version Numbers (Re: The Next Generation) Message-ID: <8712010905.AA22868@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 04:05:57 EST Article-I.D.: cory.8712010905.AA22868 Posted: Tue Dec 1 04:05:57 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Dec-87 06:17:38 EST Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 10 >Version numbers can be VERY useful. They have saved me a lot of time >on several occasions. But they DO take up a lot of space. So why not >do the sort of thing SCCS does: store previous versions as a set of >differences from the following versions. Thus getting back (or looking But not as part of the operating system. YES I've used VMS, and NO I don't think it is worth it, especially considering such issues as diskspace and slowing down an already slow DOS. -Matt