Re: Regarding RCS , pls help !!

[Bob Proulx]

Hello Praveen,

The place to ask for help about rcs is the address@hidden mailing
list.  The place to ask for help about cvs is the address@hidden
mailing list.  Please keep replies on the mailing list so that others
may help and benefit from the discussion.  Thanks.  I have CC'd the
help-rcs mailing list in this message.

Praveen Kumar Domma Raju -X (pdommara - HCL at Cisco) wrote:
> I  am using Rcs  tool    thru  perl to check-in and checkout   the files
> from CVS. They are  working  very fine .

This makes no sense to me.  If the files are in cvs then really you
should be using cvs to access those files, not rcs.  The cvs program
is based upon rcs but is not exactly the same as rcs.  You should use
cvs commands when dealing with cvs files.  You should use rcs commands
when dealing with rcs files.

Which are you really using?

> Now i want   add   tags to the file and retrive  the tag  and revision
> information for  the file by using  the same..

Tags are added with the 'rcs -nTAG' command.  See the rcs man page for
details.  Example:
  rcs -nRELEASE_1_1 somercsfile,v

Listing tags is done using the rlog command.

  rlog -h somercsfile,v

> Could  some one help me  regarding these bcas i sturked here  !!!

The place to start learning about rcs is the man page for rcsintro.

  man rcsintro

However, looking at things today, many years have passed.  It would be
better if you were to look at using CVS instead of RCS.  And instead
of CVS it would be better if you looked at using Subversion.  And
instead of Subversion it would be better if you looked at using Git.
Really I can't recommend starting off a new project with RCS today.
Here are some references.

  http://www.gnu.org/software/rcs/
  http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/
  http://subversion.tigris.org/
  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/tutorial.html

Bob