Too late, I had already downloaded the RCS from the Cyclic site and just didn't
mention I did.  Reason I went looking elsewhere was because they said no
document came with the zip files but that didn't stop me from doing the two
D/L's.
Thanks to your little tutorial here I might be able to use those zips after all.
I just didn't go looking for the reading material for them.  Interesting concept
it is, now I'll end up wondering how this could be a good feature in POV-Ray
itself.

Bob

"Jon A. Cruz" <jon### [at] geocitiescom> wrote in message
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> Here is one location you can get CVS and RCS from:
>
> http://www.cyclic.com/pub/
>
> Here is where RCS is on their servers:
>
> http://www.cyclic.com/pub/rcs/
>
> That includes Windows NT versions. (This also works for Windows 9X, since it's
> really just a Win32 version)
>
>
> Quickstart:
> * make a C:\bin directory
> * add it to your PATH
> * go there
> * extract rcs57nt.zip
> * extract diff27nt.zip
> * read some docs   :-)
> * go to where you are working on stuff
> * create a 'RCS' directory (all caps, if you can)
>
> * ci -l *.pov
>
> Now each one should ask you to enter a description.
> the "-l" option makes it check back out a locked version after the check-in is
> done. A locked version is one that you can edit.
>
> And whenever you finish editing a .pov file and are at a stage that you might
want
> to keep around, or just before you start doing strange experiments in it...
>
> ci -l myfile.pov
>
> voila! you have source control.
>
> the command
> rcsdiff myfile.pov
> will show you what has changed since your last check-in.
>
> the command
> rcslog myfile.pov
> will show you a history on that file.
>
>
> --
> "My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
> But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.
>
>
>

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