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- RCS 5.6.3 for OS/2 release notes
-
- This version of RCS is released to comp.binaries.os2 although the
- RCS 5.6.3 source code has not yet been officially released. The
- official release will not only contain the original Unix version
- but also support code for MS-DOS and OS/2 (with Microsoft C or
- Borland C compilers).
-
- The Unix and OS/2 versions are finished but the MS-DOS version is
- still worked on because of bugs/problems in MS-DOS/DOS C
- library/DOS LAN software which currently prevent use of the MS-DOS
- version in LAN's (such as Novell).
-
- Because of high demand, the OS/2 version is released with source &
- executables already now. DON'T USE THE SOURCE CODE TO BUILD AN
- MS-DOS VERSION FOR USE IN A LAN ENVIRONMENT.
-
- The source code and executables are distributed in two separate
- archives, both include this text (README) and contents lists
- (FILES.SRC and FILES.BIN).
-
- This distribution does not only include RCS source code and
- executables but also a few other programs which are either
- required to use RCS successfully or which are nice to have
- together with RCS.
-
- Included are:
-
- - RCS 5.6.3 source/rcs
-
- - RCSFRONT source/rcsfront
-
- This program is a front end for RCS and allows simple
- maintenance of entire trees of source code and RCS files.
-
- - GNU diff 1.15 source/diff
-
- This program is required to use RCS and will be included for the
- PC versions (MS-DOS and OS/2) in the original RCS 5.6.3
- distribution.
-
- - patch 2.0.12u5 source/patch
-
- This program is the opposite to GNU diff and should be available
- to everyone who has diff, although it is not required for use of
- RCS.
-
- - CVS 1.2 source/cvs
-
- This is also a front end for RCS but is more sophisticated than
- RCSFRONT. It allows full multi-user access to a common master
- source repository consisting of a tree of RCS files.
-
- This CVS version is a preliminary release and not yet fully
- tested. It is released with RCS to give me feedback about bugs
- and problems. A newer release of CVS (1.3) is already in beta
- test (but not yet ported to OS/2).
-
- - GNU gdbm source/gdbm
-
- This database library is required to compile CVS.
-
- - GNU grep source/grep
-
- Grep is required to use CVS. It is convenient to have it when
- working with lots of source code anyway. The distribution
- included grep/egrep as well as fgrep.
-
- The archive with the executables does also contain preformatted
- manual pages and documents (in PostScript format and plain ASCII).
- See these documents for further description of the programs and
- how to use them.
-
- Installation is simple, just put the programs somewhere in your
- PATH. No configuration files are needed. Eventually the
- environment variable RCSINIT should be set to the RCS options you
- use most. You may have to put a -x option (see manual) into
- RCSINIT at least.
-
- The use of RCS, RCSFRONT and CVS is much more convenient when HPFS
- is used on drives which contain the RCS files but this is not
- required. HPFS will allow the use of the traditional RCS file
- extension ,v which cannot be used on FAT drives.
-
- Not to use ,v is the default of the RCS programs in this
- distribution. When you want to use ,v then you have to set RCSINIT
- to the value "-x,v/". Otherwise, the ./RCS subdirectory is used for
- RCS files.
-
- One change in this version against the previous releases of RCS
- is, that now the path name component /RCS/ is recognized anywhere
- in a file name specification, not only if it is the last path name
- component. This feature allows the use of RCS with RCSFRONT and
- CVS on FAT drives.
-
- Note that the /RCS/ path name component must be in upper case,
- even though the OS/2 file systems are not case sensitive.
- Otherwise, /rcs/ or any other mixed case version is not
- recognized, which allows, for example, the use of rcs on a source
- directory which has /rcs/ in the path name, such as the RCS 5.6.3
- source code tree itself. The RCS programs take the file names as
- given on the command line. If wildcard expansion takes place and
- affects the /RCS/ component, /RCS/ will be uppercase on FAT and as
- it is stored in the directory on HPFS drives.
-
- The RCS port to OS/2 was done by Frank Whaley and Kai Uwe Rommel,
- RCS version 5 is currently maintained and developed by Paul
- Eggert, previous versions of RCS were built by Walter F. Tichy and
- others.
-
- Please send bug reports about RCS to:
-
- Paul Eggert, eggert@twinsun.com
-
- reports about problems uniquely on OS/2 to:
-
- Frank Whaley, few@well.sf.ca.us
-
- Kai Uwe Rommel, rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
- rommel@jonas.bofe.sub.org (only short messages)
-
- The other programs, i.e. GNU diff, GNU gdbm, GNU grep, RCSFRONT,
- CVS and patch, were ported to OS/2 by Kai Uwe Rommel. Please send bug
- reports to:
-
- Kai Uwe Rommel, rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
- rommel@jonas.bofe.sub.org (only short messages)
-
-
-
- March 12th, 1992
-
-
- Kai Uwe Rommel Muenchen, Germany
-
- rommel@jonas.bofe.sub.org Phone +49 89 723 4101
- rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de Fax +49 89 723 7889
-