MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

rcs(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities rcs(1)
NAME
rcs — change RCS file attributes
SYNOPSIS
rcs [–Aoldfile][–alogins][–B][–b[rev]] [–cstring][–e[logins]] [–Ffile...]
[–G][–I][–i][–K][–k][–L][–l[rev]] [–Nname[:rev]] [–nname[:rev]]
[–O][–orange][–q][–Rdiff_exec][–sstate[:rev]] [–T][–t[txtfile]] [–U]
[–u[rev]] [–Yfile] file ...
DESCRIPTION
Note: The
MPE/iX implementation of this utility does not function exactly as this man page
describes. For details, see the MPE/iX NOTES section at the end of this man page.
rcs creates new RCS files or changes attributes of existing ones. An RCS file contains multiple
revisions of text, an access list, a change log, descriptive text, and some control attributes. For
rcs to work, the user’s login name usually must be on the access list. However, you may also
use rcs if the access list is empty, if you are the owner of the file, if you are the system
administrator, or if you specify the –u option.
Options
rcs accepts the following options:
–Aoldfile
appends the access list of oldfile to the access list of the
RCS file.
–alogins
appends the login names appearing in the comma-separated list logins to the access
list of the
RCS file.
–B sets the file format to binary. The –B option cannot be used if the file already con-
tains revisions checked in with text file format.
–b[rev]
sets the default branch to rev.Ifrev is omitted, the default branch is reset to the
trunk.
–cstring
sets the comment leader to string. The comment leader is inserted before every log
message line generated by the keyword $Log$ during check-out (see co(1)). This is
useful for programming languages that do not have multi-line comments. In rcs –i
or ci operations, the comment leader is guessed from the suffix of the working file.
–e[logins]
erases the login names appearing in the comma-separated list logins from the access
list of the
RCS file. If logins is omitted, the entire access list is erased.
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