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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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