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NAME
     rccs - apply RCS commands to sets of files

SYNOPSIS
     rccs command [ options ] [ filename and/or directory ...  ]

DESCRIPTION
     rccs  is  a perl script that tries to emulate the Berkeley SCCS program for
     RCS.  If your fingers know how to type commands to SCCS, just do  the  same
     thing to rccs.

     A	subset	of the SCCS commands are implemented, the ones that I use.  Some
     new commands have been added.  It is easy to add more commands, see the Ex-
     ample routine at the bottom of rccs to see how.

     This interface does not require a list of files/directories for  most  com-
     mands;  the implied list is *,v and/or RCS/*,v.  Destructive commands, such
     as clean -f, unedit, unget, do not have an implied list.  In  other  words,
     rccs diffs is the same as rccs diffs RCS but rccs unedit is not the same as
     rccs unedit RCS.

COMMANDS
     options Note that RCS options are typically passed through to RCS.  The op-
	     tions  that  made	sense to SCCS commands are translated to RCS op-
	     tions.

     ci        Alias for delta.  Checks in files.

     clean [-e] [-f] [-d|y'message'] [files]
	       Without any arguments, this command removes all	files  that  are
	       read only and have an associated RCS file.  With the -e argument,
	       clean  removes files that have been checked out writable but have
	       not been modified.  The -d|y|m option may be combined with -e  to
	       check  in  the set of files that have been modified.  With the -f
	       option, clean removes all working  files,  including  files  that
	       have been modified since the check out.	Be careful.

     co        Alias for get.  Checks out files.

     create [-y|d'message'] [-g] files
	       Initial	check in of files to the RCS system.  The files are then
	       checked out readonly unless the -g option is present.  The -y  or
	       -d options may be used to set the descriptive text message.  Dif-
	       fers from SCCS in that the original files are not preserved.

     deledit   Alias for delta followed by a get -e.

     delget    Alias for delta followed by a get.

     delta [-y|d'message'] [-q] [files]
	       Check in a delta of the file.  -q is changed to RCS' -s and means
	       to  be quiet about hwat is happening.  -y'message' or -d'message'
	       or -m'message' all get sent through to RCS as the check	in  mes-
	       sage.  No other arguments are translated.

     diffs [-C|c] [-r<rev>] [-sdiff] [files]
	       Shows  changes  between the working files and the RCS file.  Note
	       that the files do not need to be checked out, only writable.   -C
	       or  -c  means  do a context diff.  -sdiff means do a side by side
	       diff.  The sdiff option will figure out your screen width  if  it
	       knows how - see the source to make this work on your system.

     edit      Alias for get -e.

     enter     Alias for create -g.

     fix       Useful if you just checked in the file and then realized you for-
	       got  something.	 The  fix command will remove the top delta from
	       the history and leave you with an editable working file with  the
	       top delta as the contents.

     get [-e] [-p] [-k] [-s] [files]
	       Get,  or check out, the file.  Without any options, get just gets
	       the latest revision of the RCS file in the  working  file.   With
	       -e,  check out the file writable.  With -p, send the file to std-
	       out.  With -k, supress expansion of key words.  With -s, be quiet
	       about what is happening.

     help      Get a brief help screen of information.

     history [files]
	       Print the RCS history (my format) of the specified files.

     info [files]
	       Print the list of files being edited.

     print     Alias for a loop that prints the history of each file followed by
	       the contents of the file.

     prs       Alias for history.

     prt       Alias for history.

     unedit    Alias for clean -f.

     unget     Alias for clean -f.

GLOBAL OPTIONS
     -debug    Turn on debugging.  Used when debugging rccs itself.

     -verbose  Be more verbose about what is happening.

EXAMPLES
     To start off, add a bunch of files to RCS:
	 rccs create -y'my program name' myprog.c myprog.h
     Now let's edit them all:
	 rccs get -e
     If we didn't change anything, the following gives us a clean directory:
	 rccs clean -e
     If we changed myprog.h, the following gives  us  a  clean	directory  after
     checking in myprog.h:
	 rccs clean -e -d'some message'
     If we want to see what we changed:
	 rccs diffs

SEE ALSO
     RCS commands, SCCS commands, sdiff(1), perl(1).

TODO
     It would be nice to implement a -i option that prompted before each action,
     especially the destructive ones.

lm@sgi.com			    Nov, 1995				 RCCS(1)

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