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I'm not an expert but believe that saving the files in MIF format means that
they are composed of text rather than the binary FM format. PVCS stores
incremental changes in text files. Therefore, your initial save is much
larger (MIF is bigger than FM) but after that the small changes can be
stored as the difference. The situation is probably far more complex than I
will ever know, I simply attended a seminar a few years ago and have no
direct experience myself.
Richard
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From: Sharon Russell [mailto:srussell -at- softtracks -dot- com]
Sent: 16 January 2002 9:28 pm
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: PVCS and Framemaker
Hi all,
Is anyone using PVCS to tracks changes to documentation? My company wants us
to use PVCS to do this, but I have some concerns about the amount of space
this will use on the server and whether PVCS may corrupt the frame files.
Do you save all of your framemaker files in PVCS? It seems a little
inefficient to check out a document to tweak a tag or page breaking, etc,
and then check it in again. Do you check in documents daily, or only for
major revisions? The other option we proposed was only saving the PDF copies
in PVCS.
I have also heard that PVCS sometimes adds garbage characters to Word files
saved in PVCS. Has anyone had an experience with that? Do you know if that
can also happen in Frame files? Any other adverse effects on Frame files?
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