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For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))
Oops - I typed ci not vi, and have lost my file ...

Sitting writing late at night, I occasionally misspoll something; no great problem - I can go back and correct it, or if I fail to do so occasionally my kind reader will work out whaT I mean and forgive. But occasionally, when I'm typing in commands at the command line, one character can cause a big problem. Let's say I typed "ci" rather that "vi":

munchkin:fppy grahamellis$ ci demo
demo,v <-- demo
enter description, terminated with single '.' or end of file:
NOTE: This is NOT the log message!
>> Err ...
>> .
initial revision: 1.1
done
munchkin:fppy grahamellis$


And that's an easy mistake to make - with "c" and "v" next to each other on the keyboard. And - oh dear - the "demo" file has gone!

munchkin:fppy grahamellis$ ls demo
ls: demo: No such file or directory
munchkin:fppy grahamellis$


Blind panic? Perhaps so, the first time ... but fear not. You have called up RCS - the "Revision Control System" and Checked In the file called demo. You'll have a file called demo,v in your current directory, and you can use the co command to get a copy out; you'll then probably need to use chmod to get set the permissions on the file and make it writable again.

Note - my example is Mac OS X; some versions of ci don't even prompt for a description and you just appear to loose your file. It's also possible that you system / RCS has been configured to save the ,v files elsewhere, so you may need to use find to find them.
(written 2011-02-21, updated 2011-02-24)

 
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