[Xastir] Preserving stable release on my system

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Dick C. Reichenbach wrote:

> Would it be possible to simply cp the xastir binary to xastir.stable?

Yes.


> Assuming I keep (at minimum) my existing libaries, can I continue to
> compile and run CVS, and run xastir.stable at the same time?  Would
> there be other conflicts, like in the configuration files?  I'd probably
> need 2 users, one to run .stable, and my normal user running CVS.

That's what I do.  I have two or three users defined, and start up a
different Xastir session under each login.  That keeps the config
files separate among them.  It allows me to test for long runtimes
while still working with the latest CVS in another account.

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