Re: document/version management? CVS?

["Aaron D. Turner" <aturner best com>]

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IMHO, CVS for WordPerfect documents is a "when pigs fly in a frozen hell"
idea.  Just ain't going to work.  Doesn't WP have a builtin revision
control system?  I would be surprised if all major wordprocessors don't
have this abililty by now.

I don't know of any "easy to use" version control system, free or for
thousands of dollars.  Actually the more expensive ones are more
complicated.  Most, if not all are geared towards programming
environments, though I use RCS for system config files a lot.

If you want something easy for a non-programmer, it's gotta be built in to
the word processor. (Emacs does this with CVS and it works quite well,
though obviously this isn't probably going to fly for your situation.)

Good luck.

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On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Michael Jinks wrote:

> Would CVS be suitable for non-programming version control, such as
> WordPerfect documents?  How tough is CVS for a non-techie on an NT
> workstation to use?  If CVS is not suitable for something like this, are
> there other options?  OpenSource would be nice but is not essential.


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