I'm looking to add version control to my IDL projects. I want to use CVS tags to update the Revision number (and other things). But I also want to be able to display a dialog at start-up with the revision information from all the source files in the project. I have created a variable at the beginning of every file: rev = '$Revision$' My question is, how can I extract this variable from each file in the project so I can display the information at run time? I see this as a scope problem. But even if I change rev to rev-xx where xx uniquely identifies the variable in each file, still, how I do I get access to them at run time? Is there a standard way of using CVS within IDL?