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| | Concurrent Versions System CVS |
 | | CVS (Concurrent Versions System) is a program that allows multiple users to access, modify and update (pseudo)simultaneously a set of files in a directory or several directories, without getting in each other's way, most of the time. |
 | | Its principles are described more in detail in Dick Grune, Concurrent Versions System, a method for independent cooperation, IR 113, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, pp. |
 | | I remember thinking about the complicated interrelated decisions that had to be made - there were RCS files, user files and entries, each of which could be absent, in conflict, removed, etc. - standing at the bus stop at the university waiting for the bus home, in bad autumn weather (1985). |
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