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What is Visual RCS?
Short Answer: A windows front end for GNU RCS.
Long Answer:
Visual RCS was designed to make your revision control tasks simple
and inexpensive. GNU RCS is a freely available revision control
system. It is used by many people on many different platforms.
Unfortunately, GNU RCS is a rather complicated group of programs with
many options. Visual RCS hides this complexity without making it
unavailable to those who like that sort of thing.
The following is a partial listing of Visual RCS features (see the
help file for a complete description):
o Create a vault directory (RCS) to store your files.
o Check out all files under revision control. You can check
out any revision/state of your code.
o Select candidate files for check in. This command looks for
files that have changed since the last check in and selects them for
you. You can then use the next command...
o Check in all selected files. Used in conjunction with the
previsous command, this allows you to quickly update your versioned
files.
o Start Visual Basic and load the selected file. If the file
is a .mak file it is loaded. If not, the directory is searched for
a project that contains the selected file.
o Start Visual Basic and make the executable for the selected
project.
o Launch the application that is associated with the selected
file.
o Create an initial revision of a file.
o Check in/out files.
o Lock/Unlock files.
o Modify the RCS attributes associated with a file. Set the locking
mode and change the comment leader. The comment leader is used when
you insert a $Log$ string into your source code. It will be expanded to
include the RCS log message. The comment leader for Visual Basic is
the ' character or REM.
o Display a history of the changes that have been made to a file.
o Display the differences between your working copy and any checked
in version.
o Print the results of any of the above commands.
o Visual RCS can be used in a networked environment to manage
multi-developer projects.
o It is not limitted to managing VB projects. It can manage any
kind of file, ascii or binary. It just has a little bit of knowledge
about VB projects.
Where can I get a copy?
Visual RCS is available via anonymous ftp in the following location:
Host: ftp.teleport.com
Dir : private/visrcs
File: visrcs10.zip
(Please note that this is a temporary home. I'll post a follow-up when I
have a permanent location.)
Unpack the archive and run the setup program. See the Getting Started topic
in the help file (visrcs.hlp) for information on what you still need to do.
How much does it cost?
$35.00 plus S&H for single user licenses. $245.00 plus S&H for single site
licenses.
Thanks for taking the time to read this far,
Andy