Help with RCS

[Ben White]

Last week, in article <10001 at leadsv.UUCP> I requested help on a problem
with RCS; namely, the superfluous compilations that were caused when
checking out a file with lock.  Here is a summary of the replies which
I have received.

Bill Davidson of ucsd!celerity.fps.com!celit!billd wrote to say
that current versions of RCS deal correctly with this problem by
calling utime or utimes to reset the date modified on the RCS file.

I also received a message from emv at math.lsa.umich.edu (real name unspecified),
who suggested an alternate tool, called "concurrent version system", or cvs,
which is available via ftp from prisma.com, or from your local supplier
of gnuware.

Thanks for your help.

Ben White