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Subject: Re: "$Id: index.html,v 1.46 2004/08/19 23:15:05 grog Exp $" ?
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robg wrote:

>Hi:
>
>I see this at the end of a lot of documents:
>
>$Id: index.html,v 1.46 2004/08/19 23:15:05 grog Exp $
>
>or something similar.  How is that done?  Is it done from a text
>editor that just appends it by itself? How would I go about doign it?
>
>Thanks.
>
>  
>
It's the check-in tag that is automaticly appended to a document when it 
is checked into a version management system.

Check out subversion (SVN) if you want to get into version management, 
also FreeBSD has it's own built-in version management system called RCS.
http://subversion.tigris.org/
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/10/19/Big_Scary_Daemons.html
http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~dbutler/tutorials/winter96/rcs/