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From: Sandra Milne <silne at optushome.com.au>
Subject: CVS( was Re: [H-GEN] Bootstrapping NetBSD)
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At 08:15 3/12/2001 +1000, you wrote:
>For those of you who wish to be programmers and have a desire to use tools
>like CVS, the concept is probably no big deal.  For someone like me whose
>system usage is limited to Netscape, email, MineSweeper, vi & pico for
>editing boot scripts, cron, passwd, & NIS src files, the concept is scarey.

I use cvs to stay up to date with bnetd. It's a matter of copying the 
relevant commands from the sourceforge page, and then moving into the 
directory and compiling. is cvs more complicated than this? i hadn't 
realised it was used for more than updating changed source files.

Sandra.

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