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1.1     ! root        1: This directory contains complete sources for version 4 of RCS.
        !             2: Version 3 was included in the 4.3 BSD distribution. Features include:
        !             3: 
        !             4: 1) Version 4 supports the "branch" keyword.
        !             5: 
        !             6: 2) Several bug fixes. In particular dereferencing of NULL pointers
        !             7: has been fixed. Previous versions dumped core on Sun machines.
        !             8: 
        !             9: 3) Version 4 is backward compatible with version 3. Version 4 RCS will
        !            10: handle files checked in under version 3 (but not vice versa).
        !            11: 
        !            12: 4) This distribution is not supported in anyway. However, bugs and
        !            13: (especially) bug fixes may be reported to [email protected].
        !            14: 
        !            15: 5) Older versions of diff do not support options used by RCS. It is
        !            16: known that 4.3 BSD, and SunOS 3.2 (and later releases) support the
        !            17: needed options. If your version of diff does not support these
        !            18: options, rcsdiff and rcsmerge will fail. Send mail to the above mail
        !            19: list giving the version of Unix you run, and arrangements will be made
        !            20: to distribute diff.
        !            21: 
        !            22: 6) See the READ_ME file in the src subdirectory concerning distribution
        !            23: of RCS sources.
        !            24: 
        !            25: 7) All sources for RCS are contained in the "src" subdirectory. Read the
        !            26: directions in its Makefile to set up the correct compile options for
        !            27: building RCS on your system.
        !            28: 
        !            29: 8) man pages reside in doc/man.
        !            30: 
        !            31: 9) Troff source for the paper "RCS A System for Version Control", which

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