data file recommendation

[Markus Kuhn]

Martin Smoot wrote on 2000-07-28 15:39 UTC:
> I recommend adding the date of the change to the data files.  The africa
> data file for example only has the following at the top of the file:
> 
> # @(#)africa	7.33
> 
> The other data files also lack the date.

I recommend to use RCS for revision control, which is today the de-facto
standard, and supports even trendy ISO 8601 dates and UTC timestamps.

Markus

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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
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