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      1 Here are references to RCS and related free software and documentation.
      2 Some of this information changes often; see the Frequently Asked Questions
      3 for more up-to-date references.
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      5 	Id: REFS,v 1.1 1995/06/16 06:19:24 eggert Exp 
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      8 Frequently 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 
     24 RCS 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 
     48 CVS
     49 
     50 CVS, the Concurrent Versions System, keeps tracks of source changes
     51 made by groups of developers working on the same files concurrently,
     52 allowing 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 
     73 Other 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.
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