MacCVS ANNOUNCE
  A contribution to free software by Strata Inc.
  (http://www.strata3d.com)
  v3.0 December 17 1997

  MacCVS home page (http://www.cyclic.com/cvs/soft-maccvs.html)


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  Table of Contents


  1. What is CVS ?

  2. About MacCVS Client

  3. What's new ?

  4. Related links


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  1.  What is CVS ?


  From the CVS documentation :

  "CVS is a version control system.  Using it, you can record the
  history of your source files."

  The official web site for CVS is www.cyclic.com
  (http://www.cyclic.com). CVS is running on a large set of platforms
  (Windows, Unix, Mac, VMS, OS/2...).

  CVS allows you to manage very large source repositories, has a lot of
  useful built-in commands, and is about 10 times faster than
  Microsoft/Metrowerks SourceSafe on Macintosh.  It works through TCP
  (no need for Netbios or ARA) and has some nice features like TCP/IP
  compression, branches and much more.


  2.  About MacCVS Client


  MacCVS client uses a CVS server located on a Unix machine, PC or
  Macintosh (Linux works nicely, including MkLinux DR2.1 update 6 on
  PowerPC).

  This port is based upon the port by Mike Ladwig
  (mike@twinpeaks.prc.com) and Matthias Neeracher
  (neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch).

  This current port is built with CodeWarrior Pro 2, and uses the MSL
  library, cvs 1.9, GUSI 1.8.2 and optionally the KClient library
  (ftp://ftp.cit.cornell.edu/pub/mac/kerberos/, a contribution of Miro
  Jurisic, mailto:meeroh@MIT.EDU)

  MacCVS can work as a stand-alone application, an Apple Event server
  (for use with MacPerl) or directly from inside Code Warrior if you use
  the CodeWarrior CVS source control plug-in
  (http://www.electricfish.com/hawkfish/CWCVS/CWCVS.html).



  3.  What's new ?


  o  Deals with Macintosh files having a resource fork (using HQX
     encoding).

  o  Has a little user interface and can provide services in the
     background through apple events.

  o  Allows you to import or add files directly from the macintosh
     without having to deal with the '-kb' option.

  o  Uses Internet Config to restore Mac signatures.

  o  Provides a work around for files which auto modify each time you
     open them (such as CW Pro 2 projects).  With a fix from MetroWerks
     this work around will no longer be necessary.

  o  It implements several kinds of authentication (by hosts,
     password, kerberos).

  o  Fixed several bugs (and probably inserted new ones :-<).


  All is provided with complete source code and a little documentation.


  4.  Related links


  o  MacCVS home page : http://www.cyclic.com/cvs/soft-maccvs.html

  o  Cyclic Software : http://www.cyclic.com

  o  CodeWarrior CVS source control plug-in :
     http://www.electricfish.com/hawkfish/CWCVS/CWCVS.html

  o  KClient library : ftp://ftp.cit.cornell.edu/pub/mac/kerberos/

  o  GUSI Library : "http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri/"