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Re: Can you get a package back to a notebook easily?

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg82925] Re: Can you get a package back to a notebook easily?
• From: Szabolcs <szhorvat at gmail.com>
• Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 03:31:11 -0500 (EST)
• References: <fgen3e$flh$1@smc.vnet.net>

On Nov 2, 9:28 am, "aaronhirshb... at yahoo.com"
<aaronhirshb... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am asking this because I want to know if I need to save my notebook
> and my package in CVS, or only my package?
>
> Aaron Hirshberg

If you are using an auto-save package, then no, you can't get back the
notebook from the .m file.  You can look into the .m file (it is just
a plain-text file, and the front end (or notebooks) are not needed to
edit it), and see that it contains less information than the notebook.