On Saturday 11 March 2006 05:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've got a rather large collection of PDF and PS file in about > 5 or 6 areas of research. > > Currently, I attempt to keep copies of these files on both my > laptop and my desktop. However, doing this manually is a little > tedious. I'm thinking of maybe using rsync or unison (written > in O'Caml) to keep the two sets in sync, but that only solves > one problem. > > I'd also like to be able to have some offline tool that searches > through these files and builds up a database so I can search the > whole collection. > > Anybody have any clues on how to do this? Suggestsions?
<clears space> rsync is kewl, but it will bite you! It is not ment to do this! You come home, tired, having worked late, and you rsync your home machine onto your work machine, blotting out your days work. Ooops. behold cvs: you work on any file any time anywhere. you can checkin or update without fear. cvs will work perfectly with ps files and since binary files are stored lock-stock-n-barrel tag your pdfs as binary (-kb). If you take the time to learn to use cvs it's a tool that you will embrace for the rest of time. It's safe (you can always revert) and it documents what you've done (the log). You can rev-id your ps docs, even put the log history into them. subversion suits the creators best, but it is not a better cvs, it's a different cvs. It did not suit my paradigism. YMMV. cvs ensures the SAME document in both places is called the same-name. subversion does not. I've heard that beagle does the search/database stuff. I've heard some people love it and it is so cpu intensive it drags some people's machine to its knees. Anybody ... James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
