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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 04, 1998
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Each time a document or a program source is edited, version information including its version name and creation date is stored in a storage. Configuration information of a plurality of documents and program sources is stored in another storage. The version and configuration information is read from the storages such that information of constituent elements of a project such as documents and program sources is placed in a vertical direction and version information of the elements is placed by use of a creation date as a reference in a horizontal direction for a two-dimensional display thereof. With the configuration, there is provided a display method of clearly presenting to the user a display image in which version information is combined with configuration information.