An installable version control file system for unix

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 725-746

  Chee, Chye Lin ^a   Erdogan, Sevki S ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Immutable files; Installable file system; Software engineering; Version control

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FILE ORGANIZATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; PERFORMANCE; UNIX;

FILE CONTROL;

FILE EDITORS;

EID: 0031170021     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-024X(199706)27:6<725::AID-SPE105>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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