Re: UNIX tips for SWARM FAQ. Please Contribute, prove your team spirit!

[glen e. p. ropella]

I guess I'll chime in as well, since I'm no longer on vacation. [grin]

The following 3 commands deserve mention.  I wouldn't bother putting
detailed instructions or examples because the user can always use
the man pages.  But, they should be mentioned.

patch  :  tool for applying patch files, which are difference files
          created by the diff command

ldd/ldconfig  :  shared library info/management tools (which .so files
                 are my executables dependent on?)

And,
Benedikt Stefansson writes:
 > c) Use RCS

Excellent suggestion!  But, I'm going to add that *we*, being the
Swarm project, use CVS, which is an extension to RCS that allows
*concurrent* development by the same user or different users and
does a decent job of merging branches and such.  So, I would advise
CVS; but, especially for a single developer, it only matters that 
one use *some* revisioning system tool.


glen
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