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 $FreeBSD$
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
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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