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111891SpeterHere are references to RCS and related free software and documentation. 211891SpeterSome of this information changes often; see the Frequently Asked Questions 311891Speterfor more up-to-date references. 411891Speter 550472Speter $FreeBSD: head/gnu/usr.bin/rcs/REFS 50472 1999-08-27 23:37:10Z peter $ 611891Speter 711891Speter 811891SpeterFrequently Asked Questions (FAQs) 911891Speter 1011891Speter<http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/Software-Engineering/> 1111891Speter<ftp://rtfm.mit.edu//pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/comp/software-eng/> 1211891Speter for software engineering; e.g. see 1311891Speter <http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/Software-Engineering/blurb/rcs>. 1411891Speter 1511891Speter<http://www.iac.honeywell.com/Pub/Tech/CM/CMFAQ.html> 1611891Speter<ftp://rtfm.mit.edu//pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/comp/software/config-mgmt/> 1711891Speter for configuration management 1811891Speter 1911891Speter<http://www.winternet.com/~zoo/cvs/FAQ.txt> 2011891Speter<ftp://ftp.odi.com/pub/users/dgg/FAQ.gz> 2111891Speter for CVS (see below) 2211891Speter 2311891Speter 2411891SpeterRCS and related GNU project software 2511891Speter 2611891Speter<ftp://ftp.cs.purdue.edu/pub/RCS/> 2711891Speter The RCS project distribution directory also contains beta versions, 2811891Speter ports, and prebuilt documentation. 2911891Speter 3011891Speter<ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/> 3111891Speter The GNU project distribution directory contains: 3211891Speter diffutils-N-tar.gz 3311891Speter the latest diffutils release; recommended for RCS 3411891Speter emacs-N-tar.gz 3511891Speter The latest Emacs release contains VC, a version-control package 3611891Speter that makes RCS easier to use. 3711891Speter make-N-tar.gz 3811891Speter GNU Make, which can automatically build from RCS files. 3911891Speter rcs-N-tar.gz 4011891Speter the latest RCS release 4111891Speter cvs-N-tar.gz 4211891Speter the latest official CVS release (see below) 4311891Speter 4411891Speter<ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/gnu/devtools/> DOS, OS/2 ports 4511891Speter<ftp://ftp.cc.utexas.edu/microlib/nt/gnu/> NT port 4611891Speter 4711891Speter 4811891SpeterCVS 4911891Speter 5011891SpeterCVS, the Concurrent Versions System, keeps tracks of source changes 5111891Spetermade by groups of developers working on the same files concurrently, 5211891Speterallowing them to resync as needed. 5311891Speter 5411891Speter<http://www.winternet.com/~zoo/cvs/> 5511891Speter<http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs-index.html> 5611891Speter These pages have useful information about CVS. 5711891Speter 5811891Speter<ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/cvs-1.3.tar.gz> 5911891Speter CVS 1.3 is the latest released version. 6011891Speter 6111891Speter<ftp://ftp.delos.com/pub/cvs/alpha/cvs-1.4A2.tar.gz> 6211891Speter CVS 1.4 is in alpha test, but it is recommended if you are installing CVS 6311891Speter for the first time, or on a recent operating system. 6411891Speter 6511891Speter<ftp://ftp-os2.cdrom.com/pub/os2/unix/> DOS, OS/2 ports 6611891Speter<ftp://ftp.cc.utexas.edu/microlib/nt/gnu/> NT port 6711891Speter 6811891Speter<ftp://ftp.cyclic.com/pub/cvs/> 6911891Speter Cyclic CVS adds network transparency to CVS; it supports efficient, 7011891Speter reliable, and authenticated repository access via TCP/IP. 7111891Speter 7211891Speter 7311891SpeterOther software that uses RCS 7411891Speter 7511891Speter<ftp://ftp.nau.edu/pub/Aegis/> 7611891Speter Aegis manages revisions, baselines, mandatory reviews, and mandatory testing. 7711891Speter 7811891Speter<ftp://ftp.vix.com/pub/patches/csu/> 7911891Speter BCS, the Baseline Configuration System, 8011891Speter manages revisions, baselines, and staging areas. 8111891Speter 8211891Speter<ftp://riftp.osf.org/pub/ode/> 8311891Speter ODE, the Open Software Foundation Development Environment, 8411891Speter manages revisions, builds, and sandboxes. 8511891Speter OSF uses it for their own development. 8611891Speter 8711891Speter<ftp://bellcore.com/pub/Odin/> 8811891Speter Odin, a `make' replacement, can build directly from arbitrary revisions 8911891Speter without requiring checkouts of working copies. It also handles 9011891Speter parallel builds on multiple remote hosts and of multiple variants. 91