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[Curt Mills, WE7U]

>On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Orrin Winton wrote:
>
>> Any advice on saving my "old" executable before
>> i do a cvs update & compile it?  Just in case i don't 
>> like what i get when i compile, and want to go back
>> to using 1.2.1.
>> 
>> This is Cygwin.  xastir.exe is in /usr/local/bin/
>> I'm wondering if it's enough to keep a copy of the "old"
>> xastir.exe someplace else, or is there a chance of
>> the old xastir.exe not working anymore because OTHER
>> libs or executables have changed with the new compile.
>
>I'd just do this:
>
>	cd src
>	cp -R xastir xastir-old
>	cd xastir
>	cvs update
>
>That way the old code is in the xastir-old directory.  You can always
>switch back to that directory, do another "make install", and you'll
>have the old executable back.
>
>Curt, WE7U.				archer at eskimo.com
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