On Wed, 15 Nov 1995, Joe Budge <budge@clark.net> wrote: | The META tag could benefit greatly from HTTP-EQUIV's for "revision" | (as in 'revision number') and 'timestamp' (as in 'date/time the | document was authored'). | | Librarians -- electronic or otherwise -- keep track of different | versions of a document in many professions. This is crucial in | situations where one needs to track changes in documents over | time -- as frequently happens in legal, engineering, purchasing, and | technical support activities. I would rate the importance of these | as "high" since one cannot do serious document management | without these concepts. You can use CGI to achieve the same thing. For example, "http://.../.../file.txt?2.4" gets you version 2.4 of file.txt and "http://.../.../file.txt" gets you the current version (the CGI script can return the actual version. The CGI script can use things like RCS or SCCS to do this quite easily. -- Bill Cheng // Guest at Columbia Unversity Computer Science Department william@CS.COLUMBIA.EDU ...!{uunet|ucbvax}!cs.columbia.edu!william WWW Home Page: <URL:http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~william>Received on Thursday, 16 November 1995 09:49:04 UTC
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