Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!sdd.hp.com!caen!umich!vela!rigel.acs.oakland.edu!w8sdz From: w8sdz@rigel.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: has anyone used the rcs system from Simtel? Summary: Send questions to lfk@athena.mit.edu (Frank Kolakowski) Message-ID: <7496@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Date: 25 Jun 91 07:17:06 GMT References: <3447@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> Sender: news@vela.acs.oakland.edu Distribution: comp.os.msdos.programmer Organization: The SIMTEL20 Archives Lines: 27 creider@csd.uwo.ca (Chet Creider) writes: >Has anyone succeeded in understanding how the DOS rcs is intended to >work? When I try to use it, it puts write protection on a file, then >can't delete this file when checking in. Then when checking out, it >encounters the write-protected file and can't overwrite it. None of >the switches on ci or co seem to help, and rcs.exe doesn't either. I wish questions like this were directed to me. I could have answered your question about who uploaded RCS, which would have saved time for you and bandwidth for the network. SIMTEL20 directory PD1: Filename Type Length Date Description ============================================== DOSRCSEX.ZIP B 136791 900829 Revision Control System for text files, 1of3 DOSRCSMP.ZIP B 24412 900829 Revision Control System for text files, 2of3 SH_RCSEX.ZIP B 170318 900829 Revision Control System for text files, 3of3 There files were uploaded by lfk@athena.mit.edu (Frank Kolakowski). Please send questions to him. Keith -- Keith Petersen Maintainer of the MSDOS, MISC and CP/M archives at SIMTEL20 [192.88.110.20] Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil or w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu Uucp: uunet!umich!vela!w8sdz BITNET: w8sdz@OAKLAND