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1.1       root        1: /* Copyright (C) 1982, 1988, 1989 Walter Tichy
                      2:  * All rights reserved.
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                      4:  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted
                      5:  * provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are
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                      9:  * by Walter Tichy.
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                     15:  *   [email protected]
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                     24: */
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                     26: This directory contains complete sources for version 4 of RCS.
                     27: Version 3 was included in the 4.3 BSD distribution. Features include:
                     28: 
                     29: 1) Version 4 supports the "branch" keyword.
                     30: 
                     31: 2) Numerous bug fixes. In addition, RCS now runs on many more machine
                     32: architectures, including Suns (3.x and 4.0), VAXen (4.2 and 4.3 BSD),
                     33: and IBM PC-ATs (Xenix).
                     34: 
                     35: 3) Version 4 is backward compatible with version 3. Version 4 RCS will
                     36: handle files checked in under version 3 (but not vice versa).
                     37: 
                     38: 4) This distribution is not supported in anyway. However, bugs and
                     39: (especially) bug fixes may be reported to [email protected].
                     40: 
                     41: 5) Older versions of diff do not support options used by RCS. It is
                     42: known that 4.3 BSD, and SunOS 3.2 (and later releases) support the
                     43: needed options. If your version of diff does not support these
                     44: options, obtain the GNU diff from the FSF.
                     45: 
                     46: under teh terms of the GNU General Public License.
                     47: 
                     48: 7) All sources for RCS are contained in the "src" subdirectory. Read the
                     49: directions in its Makefile to set up the correct compile options for
                     50: building RCS on your system.
                     51: 
                     52: 8) man pages reside in man.
                     53: 
                     54: 9) Troff source for the paper "RCS A System for Version Control", which
                     55: appeared in Software Practice and Experience, can be found in "rcs.ms".

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