Depending on your needs (and my suggestion might be off), I would
recommend using CVS instead of RCS. You can do much more with that and
it's 'workgroup' oriented versus 'individual' usage of RCS...

Steve Sayler wrote:
> RCS - Revision Control System
>
> I recently read an article about setting up and using RCS, and this
> works great on my RH linux bowes but fails with HPUX. The failure is
> substantial.
>
> on my RH linux I use the following command for RCS editing (instead of vi):
>
> rvi
> .................................................
> #!/bin/sh
> co -l $1
> $VISUAL $1
> rcsdiff -u $1
> ci -u $1
>
>
>
> but I get substantial errors:
>
> root@shadow> rvi ./squid.conf
> co error: Can't find squid.conf,v
> /.root/bin/rvi[3]: ./squid.conf: Execute permission denied.
> rcsdiff error: unknown option: -u
> command format:
> rcsdiff [-b] [-cefhn] [-rrev1] [-rrev2] file
> rcsdiff aborted
> squid.conf,v <-- ./squid.conf
> initial revision: 1.1
> enter description, terminated with ^D or '.':
> NOTE: This is NOT the log message!
> >>
>
>
>
> any help would be appreciated:
>
> thanks, steve
>
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