| Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) |
| CS-RCS and GNU RCS |
 | What are the benefits of CS-RCS being based on GNU RCS? |
| Can I use CS-RCS in conjunction with GNU RCS? |
| Can I use CS-RCS in conjunction with GNU CVS? |
| Is CS-RCS GPL compliant? |
| Evaluation and Registration |
| What is the difference between CS-RCS Basic edition and CS-RCS Professional edition (CS-RCS Pro)? |
| How can I get a hard-copy of the CS-RCS documentation? |
| Is CS-RCS free for personal use? |
| Are there any differences between the evaluation version and the registered version? |
| What happens when the 30 day evaluation period expires? |
| Am I obligated to anything by evaluating CS-RCS or by using the technical support? |
| What is your technical support policy? |
| How can I get technical support? |
| How can I purchase CS-RCS? |
| What does the CS-RCS price include? |
| How do you count the number of licensed users? |
| How long have you been in business? |
| How does CS-RCS compare to other products on the market? |
| What is your upgrade policy? |
| How can I upgrade my license? |
| Can I evaluate a new version of CS-RCS without affecting active users? |
| How should I upgrade my setup to a new version of CS-RCS? |
| CS-RCS Installation |
| What are the system requirements for a workstation? |
| What are the system requirements for a server? |
| How can I automate the setup of CS-RCS on workstations? |
| Does setup and/or uninstall affect the archive files? |
| What is the structure of the central Repository tree used to store the archive files? |
| How do I import existing GNU RCS or GNU CVS files to CS-RCS? |
| I imported existing GNU RCS files. Why do I get an extra <lf> character in the work files? |
| How do I switch from a local RCS directory environment to a central Repository? |
| How can I import old sources to CS-RCS? |
| How do I import Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS) files to CS-RCS? |
| How do I import MKS RCS files to CS-RCS? |
| How do I import PVCS files to CS-RCS? |
| How do I import SCCS files to CS-RCS? |
| How do I install long file name support for NetWare 4.1? |
| How do I switch the Master workstation |
| How can I choose the CS-RCS user name? |
| How can I use CS-RCS from two computers with the same login name? |
| How do I uninstall CS-RCS? |
| Multi-platform (Windows/UNIX ) |
| How should I start using CS-RCS on a multi-platform environment? |
| What do I have to change in the Samba configuration to use CS-RCS? |
| How do I map an active UNIX RCS files to a CS-RCS Repository? |
| How can I access a CS-RCS Repository stored on an NT drive from UNIX? |
| How can I access a UNIX RCS project from CS-RCS? |
| Do you have a UNIX CS-RCS Client? |
| How can I get Unix-style work files? |
| How can I use CS-RCS to retrieve a build-version for UNIX tools? |
| Networking / Remote Users |
| How do I use CS-RCS over the Internet? |
| How do I work with a transitory connection to the Repository? |
| How can I deactivate the Windows Explorer integration? |
| I work with a laptop computer. How should I install CS-RCS? |
| I work with a slow connection to the repository. How should I install CS-RCS? |
| How should I use CS-RCS when I leave the office? (I always work with a laptop computer) |
| I work with a desktop computer in the office and with a laptop computer outside the office. How should I use CS-RCS? |
| My department needs to access remote projects. How should I install CS-RCS? |
| How can I use CS-RCS from Windows Terminal Services? |
| Integration with External Tools |
| How should I use CS-RCS with other tools? |
| How can I invoke CS-RCS from other applications or batch files? |
| How do I activate or deactivate the Microsoft Word integration? |
| Why is the Microsoft Word integration not working? |
| Why do I get a warning that the CS-RCS macro signing cannot be verified? |
| Why are the revision tags not updated in my MS-Word document? |
| Why do revisions of Microsoft Word documents lose the changes marks? |
| Why am I not able to compare MS-Word documents revisions visually? |
| How do I activate or deactivate the SCC integration? |
| The SCC integration is not working as expected? |
| How can I select the SCC provider? |
| The Open from source control command doesn't work as documented? |
| Can CS-RCS call user functions before or after CS-RCS operations? |
| Projects |
| How can I add files to a project? |
| Can I add files to the projects which don't reside in the project Work folders tree? |
| How are files assigned to projects? |
| How can I know to which project a specific file is mapped? |
| How can I perform the same operation on all my projects? |
| How should I rename, move a folder, or change the case of a file? |
| How do I move files to another folder? |
| How do I move a project repository to another server? |
| How do I change the work folder of a project on all workstations? |
| How can I change the project work folder on my workstation? |
| How should I rename a project? |
| How can I recover missing projects? |
| I have an old project that is never used what can I do? |
| I see the status as Blocked, however, I'm able to edit the file. Then the file's status is changed to Modified (Unlocked). Why is this happening? |
| How can I work with a shared work folder? |
| Why files in the shared work folder remains with 'Read-only' permission even when the file is locked by RCS? |
| How can I make sure that the shadow folder is up-to-date? |
| How can I set projects to get the advanced properties from the project defaults? |
| How can I set all sub projects to inherit the advanced properties a top level project ? |
| How can I make sure that all project files are added to the RCS? |
| Performance Issues |
| How can I boost the performance of the CS-RCS commands? |
| I have tested CS-RCS with 1000 files and its performance is great. What performance should I expect with 5000 files? |
| I have a very large project. How can I access the files quickly? |
| I have a very large project. How can I open it quickly? |
| How can I configure the "Scan new files" command to execute faster? |
| Why does CS-RCS scan for new files every time I open the project? |
| Milestones / Branching |
| We are going to release version 3.0 of our product. How do I set the RCS revision to 3.0? |
| How should I define milestones? "By date" or based on "RCS symbolic name" ? |
| Why all changes are marked with the Experimental state? |
| What support does CS-RCS provide for symbolic names? |
| Should I add a new file to the branch or to the trunk? |
| I added a new file to the trunk. How can I add it to the branch? |
| When should I set the active branch? |
| How can I set the active branch from the command-line? |
| How can I restore a deleted milestone or branch? |
| How can I incorporate vendor source changes to CS-RCS? |
| How can I merge changes from the trunk to a branch? |
| How are merge conflicts marked when I execute ‘Raw merge’? |
| Security |
| How should I protect the Repository from unwanted changes? |
| How can I define default security permissions on my system? |
| I granted desired permissions to the Everyone group. Why are there some users who cannot access the project? |
| How can I avoid other users from accessing my confidential projects? |
| How can I grant different permissions to different departments? |
| How can I store private documents on my workstation? |
| Most of my projects are local. Where should I put the CS-RCS Central Repository? |
| We want to isolate our departments. Where should I put the CS-RCS Central Repository? |
| How can I avoid users from adding files from arbitrary folders to the RCS? |
| Repository Administration |
| How should I backup/restore the CS-RCS Repository? |
| How can I know what Repository root my workstation is using? |
| How do I switch the CS-RCS Repository root to another server? |
| Our system department moved the RCS repository to another server. How can I access it? |
| How do I release the lock from an RCS file? |
| How do I delete revisions from the RCS file? |
| What are the files created by CS-RCS in the central repository root? |
| What are the files created by CS-RCS at the project repository root? |
| Why are BAK files sometimes created in work folders? |
| How To... |
| How do I use CS-RCS with a build tool? |
| How do I rollback to an older revision? |
| What scheduler should I use to invoke the CS-RCS command-line? |
| How can I publish the latest project revision? |
| How can I add a large number of new files to the Repository? |
| How can I control the new file's lock state and revision? |
| How can I configure CS-RCS to view files with my favorite editor? |
| How can I configure CS-RCS to ignore specific file types? |
| How can I configure CS-RCS to ignore files of undefined file types? |
| How can I control binary files with CS-RCS? |
| How can I visually compare revisions in Excel files? |
| How can I visually compare revisions in HTML and XML files? |
| How can I easily perform CS-RCS commands on frequently used files? |
| How can I clear the CS-RCS cache? |
| How do I remove the Document Archive icon from the desktop? |
| How can I re-enable all CS-RCS information messages? |
| How can I add LNK Files to the repository? |
| What are RCS keywords? How do I use them? |
| How can I know when a specific change was made to the function and why it was made? |
| How can I use CS-RCS from the Macintosh? |
| How can I change all my binary extensions to support the new Binary mode? |
| How can I get old binary files already in CS-RCS to use the new binary archiving mode? |
| Troubleshooting |
| Why do I get a "Missing DLL" error message when I try to install CS-RCS? |
| Why is the check-in date displayed differently on various workstations? |
| Why do I get the message: CS-RCS Server cannot be loaded? |
| Why are all files always locked by me? The "Retain Lock" option is always checked and grayed? |
| Why are RCS Keywords not updated in my files? |
| I can open files from the Windows Explorer, however, the Open command in the Document Explorer is gray. Why? |
| Email Notification is not working. Why? |
| Windows Explorer Integration is not working. Why? |
| Why do I not see all the files in a project? |
| I see all files in the master project. Why do I not see any files in a sub-project? |
| How can I make sure the file status is up-to-date? |