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Re: Tool for document management



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On 09/23/07 11:10, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> How big (in bytes) is this writing project?
> 
>     Right now, tiny.
> 
>> So why couldn't you tar up your directory into proj_<timestamp>.tar
>> and rcp it to a couple of other computers?  (Since you use odt, no
>> need to compress the tarball.)
> 
>>>  o sync across multiple machines.
>       ^^^^
> 
>     Tarballs don't sync across machines, they overwrite.  Also it's a matter

I don't mean sync, I mean copy.

> of convenience.  I've gone down the toss-a-tarball (rar, actually) around
> method over a decade ago and didn't much care for it then nor to replicate it now.

What's wrong with toss-a-tarball?  Having yyyymmdd_hhmm in the file
name is a perfectly valid method of keeping versions separate.

Unless your bandwidth is on the extreme end of small.

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

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