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1Here are references to RCS and related free software and documentation.
2Some of this information changes often; see the Frequently Asked Questions
3for more up-to-date references.
4
5 $FreeBSD: src/gnu/usr.bin/rcs/REFS,v 1.5 1999/08/27 23:36:36 peter Exp $
6 $DragonFly: src/gnu/usr.bin/rcs/REFS,v 1.2 2003/06/17 04:25:47 dillon Exp $
7
8
9Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
10
11<http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/Software-Engineering/>
12<ftp://rtfm.mit.edu//pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/comp/software-eng/>
13  for software engineering; e.g. see
14  <http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/Software-Engineering/blurb/rcs>.
15
16<http://www.iac.honeywell.com/Pub/Tech/CM/CMFAQ.html>
17<ftp://rtfm.mit.edu//pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/comp/software/config-mgmt/>
18  for configuration management
19
20<http://www.winternet.com/~zoo/cvs/FAQ.txt>
21<ftp://ftp.odi.com/pub/users/dgg/FAQ.gz>
22  for CVS (see below)
23
24
25RCS and related GNU project software
26
27<ftp://ftp.cs.purdue.edu/pub/RCS/>
28  The RCS project distribution directory also contains beta versions,
29  ports, and prebuilt documentation.
30
31<ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/>
32  The GNU project distribution directory contains:
33    diffutils-N-tar.gz
34      the latest diffutils release; recommended for RCS
35    emacs-N-tar.gz
36      The latest Emacs release contains VC, a version-control package
37      that makes RCS easier to use.
38    make-N-tar.gz
39      GNU Make, which can automatically build from RCS files.
40    rcs-N-tar.gz
41      the latest RCS release
42    cvs-N-tar.gz
43      the latest official CVS release (see below)
44
45<ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/gnu/devtools/> DOS, OS/2 ports
46<ftp://ftp.cc.utexas.edu/microlib/nt/gnu/> NT port
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48
49CVS
50
51CVS, the Concurrent Versions System, keeps tracks of source changes
52made by groups of developers working on the same files concurrently,
53allowing them to resync as needed.
54
55<http://www.winternet.com/~zoo/cvs/>
56<http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs-index.html>
57  These pages have useful information about CVS.
58
59<ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/cvs-1.3.tar.gz>
60  CVS 1.3 is the latest released version.
61
62<ftp://ftp.delos.com/pub/cvs/alpha/cvs-1.4A2.tar.gz>
63  CVS 1.4 is in alpha test, but it is recommended if you are installing CVS
64  for the first time, or on a recent operating system.
65
66<ftp://ftp-os2.cdrom.com/pub/os2/unix/> DOS, OS/2 ports
67<ftp://ftp.cc.utexas.edu/microlib/nt/gnu/> NT port
68
69<ftp://ftp.cyclic.com/pub/cvs/>
70  Cyclic CVS adds network transparency to CVS; it supports efficient,
71  reliable, and authenticated repository access via TCP/IP.
72
73
74Other software that uses RCS
75
76<ftp://ftp.nau.edu/pub/Aegis/>
77  Aegis manages revisions, baselines, mandatory reviews, and mandatory testing.
78
79<ftp://ftp.vix.com/pub/patches/csu/>
80  BCS, the Baseline Configuration System,
81  manages revisions, baselines, and staging areas.
82
83<ftp://riftp.osf.org/pub/ode/>
84  ODE, the Open Software Foundation Development Environment,
85  manages revisions, builds, and sandboxes.
86  OSF uses it for their own development.
87
88<ftp://bellcore.com/pub/Odin/>
89  Odin, a `make' replacement, can build directly from arbitrary revisions
90  without requiring checkouts of working copies.  It also handles
91  parallel builds on multiple remote hosts and of multiple variants.
92