Re: Change Control / RCS / PVCS

Leo,

Do you find that you can ci on Unix and co the same file on NT without causing any problems?

Are you able to embed RCS Identifiers such as $Id$ in the ASCII files?

Regards,
Paul Beardsell psb_at_SamBuSys.com

Leo Albers wrote:
>
> Paul,
>
> We use RCS version 5.7 on the Unix box for several types of files.
> Transfer (drap&drop) between NT and the Unix box is done using a NFS link.
> For Oracle Forms(forms/menus), Reports and Libraries we build 2 scripts to
> replace "co" and "ci".
> Using a "variable" in a form,report or library will store the RCS info like
> $Id: $ when the file checked-out of RCS.
> This enables you to display program version info at any time.
> The scripts take the binary input like, *.fmb, *.mmb, *.pll, *.rdf and
> convert them into ASCII.
> The reason that we wan't only "ASCII" files loaded into RCS...because it
> causes a less problems and storage.
>
> And yes....CI-RCS http://www.ComponentSoftware.com/csrcs recommended by Andy
> Hardy looks very promissing.
>
> Regards,
> Leo Albers
> EDS Venray
>
> Paul Beardsell <psb_at_sambusys.com> wrote in message
> news:38DCD16A.D2B85A95_at_sambusys.com...
> > Does anybody have any recommendations for change control of
> > Developer/2000 forms, menus and reports?
> >
> > We have had a brief
> > look at PVCS and are not impressed. We use RCS on Unix and we
> > find it excellent and we are considering using the command line
> > version of RCS for NT for our Developer/2000 forms etc.
> >
> > any comments?
Received on Mon Apr 03 2000 - 22:25:20 CEST