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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: head/gnu/usr.bin/rcs/REFS 21673 1997-01-14 07:20:47Z jkh $ 6 7 8Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) 9 10<http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/Software-Engineering/> 11<ftp://rtfm.mit.edu//pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/comp/software-eng/> 12 for software engineering; e.g. see 13 <http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/Software-Engineering/blurb/rcs>. 14 15<http://www.iac.honeywell.com/Pub/Tech/CM/CMFAQ.html> 16<ftp://rtfm.mit.edu//pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/comp/software/config-mgmt/> 17 for configuration management 18 19<http://www.winternet.com/~zoo/cvs/FAQ.txt> 20<ftp://ftp.odi.com/pub/users/dgg/FAQ.gz> 21 for CVS (see below) 22 23 24RCS and related GNU project software 25 26<ftp://ftp.cs.purdue.edu/pub/RCS/> 27 The RCS project distribution directory also contains beta versions, 28 ports, and prebuilt documentation. 29 30<ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/> 31 The GNU project distribution directory contains: 32 diffutils-N-tar.gz 33 the latest diffutils release; recommended for RCS 34 emacs-N-tar.gz 35 The latest Emacs release contains VC, a version-control package 36 that makes RCS easier to use. 37 make-N-tar.gz 38 GNU Make, which can automatically build from RCS files. 39 rcs-N-tar.gz 40 the latest RCS release 41 cvs-N-tar.gz 42 the latest official CVS release (see below) 43 44<ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/gnu/devtools/> DOS, OS/2 ports 45<ftp://ftp.cc.utexas.edu/microlib/nt/gnu/> NT port 46 47 48CVS 49 50CVS, the Concurrent Versions System, keeps tracks of source changes 51made by groups of developers working on the same files concurrently, 52allowing them to resync as needed. 53 54<http://www.winternet.com/~zoo/cvs/> 55<http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs-index.html> 56 These pages have useful information about CVS. 57 58<ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/cvs-1.3.tar.gz> 59 CVS 1.3 is the latest released version. 60 61<ftp://ftp.delos.com/pub/cvs/alpha/cvs-1.4A2.tar.gz> 62 CVS 1.4 is in alpha test, but it is recommended if you are installing CVS 63 for the first time, or on a recent operating system. 64 65<ftp://ftp-os2.cdrom.com/pub/os2/unix/> DOS, OS/2 ports 66<ftp://ftp.cc.utexas.edu/microlib/nt/gnu/> NT port 67 68<ftp://ftp.cyclic.com/pub/cvs/> 69 Cyclic CVS adds network transparency to CVS; it supports efficient, 70 reliable, and authenticated repository access via TCP/IP. 71 72 73Other software that uses RCS 74 75<ftp://ftp.nau.edu/pub/Aegis/> 76 Aegis manages revisions, baselines, mandatory reviews, and mandatory testing. 77 78<ftp://ftp.vix.com/pub/patches/csu/> 79 BCS, the Baseline Configuration System, 80 manages revisions, baselines, and staging areas. 81 82<ftp://riftp.osf.org/pub/ode/> 83 ODE, the Open Software Foundation Development Environment, 84 manages revisions, builds, and sandboxes. 85 OSF uses it for their own development. 86 87<ftp://bellcore.com/pub/Odin/> 88 Odin, a `make' replacement, can build directly from arbitrary revisions 89 without requiring checkouts of working copies. It also handles 90 parallel builds on multiple remote hosts and of multiple variants. 91