The RCS MINI-HOWTO: Creating and maintaining archives.

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## 4. Creating and maintaining archives.

The program `rcs(1)` does the work or creating archives and modifying their attributes. A summary of `rcs(1)` options may be found in the `rcs(1)` manual page.

The easiest way to create an archive is first to `mkdir RCS` in the current directory, then initialize the archive with the

    rcs -i name_of_work_file

command. This creates and archive with the name `./RCS/name_of_work_file,v` and requests a text message describing the archive, but it does not deposit any revisions in the archive. You can turn on or off strict archive locking with the commands

    rcs -L name_of_work_file

and

    rcs -U name_of_work_file

respectively. There are other options for controlling access to the archive, setting its format, and setting revision numbers, which are covered in the `rcs(1)` manual page.

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