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From: Paul Beardsell <psb@sambusys.com>
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Subject: Re: Change Control / RCS / PVCS
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 21:25:20 +0100
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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@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@sambusys.com> wrote in message
> news:38DCD16A.D2B85A95@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?