Buy New
 

or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
 
Buy Used
Used - Good See details
$3.86 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details

or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
   
Express Checkout with PayPhrase
What's this? | Create PayPhrase
More Buying Choices
60 used & new from $0.01

Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
   
Applying RCS and SCCS: From Source Control to Project Control (Nutshell Handbook)
 
 
Tell the Publisher!
I’d like to read this book on Kindle

Don’t have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here.
 
  

Applying RCS and SCCS: From Source Control to Project Control (Nutshell Handbook) (Paperback)

~ (Author), Tan Bronson (Author)
1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

List Price: $34.95
Price: $26.56 & this item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Details
You Save: $8.39 (24%)
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
In Stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.

Only 2 left in stock--order soon (more on the way).

Want it delivered Wednesday, February 10? Choose One-Day Shipping at checkout. Details
20 new from $7.24 40 used from $0.01
Like this book? Find similar titles from O'Reilly and Partners in our O'Reilly Bookstore.

Frequently Bought Together

Applying RCS and SCCS: From Source Control to Project Control (Nutshell Handbook) + Essential CVS (Essentials) + Managing Projects with GNU Make (Nutshell Handbooks)
Price For All Three: $76.02

Show availability and shipping details

  • This item: Applying RCS and SCCS: From Source Control to Project Control (Nutshell Handbook) by Don Bolinger

    In Stock.
    Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
    This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Details

  • Essential CVS (Essentials) by Jennifer Vesperman

    In Stock.
    Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
    This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Details

  • Managing Projects with GNU Make (Nutshell Handbooks) by Robert William Mecklenburg

    In Stock.
    Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
    Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details


Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Essential CVS (Essentials)

Essential CVS (Essentials)

by Jennifer Vesperman
4.2 out of 5 stars (17)  $29.69
Managing Projects with GNU Make (Nutshell Handbooks)

Managing Projects with GNU Make (Nutshell Handbooks)

by Robert William Mecklenburg
3.4 out of 5 stars (14)  $19.77
The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse

The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse

by Norman S. Matloff
5.0 out of 5 stars (3)  $35.30
Unix in a Nutshell, Fourth Edition

Unix in a Nutshell, Fourth Edition

by Arnold Robbins
4.4 out of 5 stars (59)  $23.07
Microsoft SharePoint 2007 For Dummies

Microsoft SharePoint 2007 For Dummies

by Vanessa L. Williams
3.9 out of 5 stars (15)  $15.74
Explore similar items

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Applying RCS and SCCS tells you how to manage a complex software development project using RCS and SCCS. The book tells you much more than how to use each command; it's organized in terms of increasingly complex management problems, from simple source management, to managing multiple releases, to coordinating teams of developers on a project involving many files and more than one target platform. Few developers use RCS or SCCS alone; most groups have written their own extensions for working with multiperson, multiplatform, multifile, multirelease projects. Part of this book, therefore, discusses how to design your own tools on top of RCS or SCCS, both covering issues related to "front-ending" in general, and by describing TCCS, one such set of tools (available via FTP). This book also provides an overview of CVS, SPMS, and other project management environments.

From the Publisher

Applying RCS and SCCS tells you how to manage a complex software development project using RCS and SCCS. The book tells you much more than how to use each command; it's organized in terms of increasingly complex management problems, from simple source management, to managing multiple releases, to coordinating teams of developers on a project involving many files and more than one target platform. Few developers use RCS or SCCS alone; most groups have written their own extensions for working with multiperson, multiplatform, multifile, multirelease projects. Part of this book, therefore, discusses how to design your own tools on top of RCS or SCCS, both covering issues related to "front-ending" in general, and by describing TCCS, one such set of tools (available via FTP). This book also provides an overview of CVS, SPMS, and other project management environments.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 528 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (March 1, 1995)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1565921178
  • ISBN-13: 978-1565921177
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.9 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,526,134 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

More About the Author

Don Bolinger
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.

Visit Amazon's Don Bolinger Page

Look Inside This Book


What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

Applying RCS and SCCS: From Source Control to Project Control (Nutshell Handbook)
72% buy the item featured on this page:
Applying RCS and SCCS: From Source Control to Project Control (Nutshell Handbook) 1.8 out of 5 stars (5)
$26.56
Essential CVS (Essentials)
16% buy
Essential CVS (Essentials) 4.2 out of 5 stars (17)
$29.69
Pragmatic Version Control Using CVS
12% buy
Pragmatic Version Control Using CVS 4.1 out of 5 stars (10)
$21.86

Tags Customers Associate with This Product

 (What's this?)
Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
 

Your tags: Add your first tag
 

Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store

If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store. Learn more

 

Customer Reviews

5 Reviews
5 star:    (0)
4 star:    (0)
3 star:
 (1)
2 star:
 (2)
1 star:
 (2)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
1.8 out of 5 stars (5 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Beware: TCCS is half vaporware, March 29, 1999
By A Customer
A good general coverage of RCS and SCCS. However, more than half the book is devoted to a project control system called TCCS. Nowhere in the book does it indicate that TCCS is only an alpha version right now and that several of the features described in the book are not available yet!
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No


 
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Outdated book, September 25, 2001
By A Customer
This book is far too outdated to be worth of bying. The
version control software RCS is very simple to use,
because you only have to

1) create directory RCS/
2) put file into version control with "ci -u -m message file"
3) get file from version control with "co file"

The Gnu RCS is at version 5.7 and hasn't changes nearly
a decade, so that Manual pages that come with RCS are
very sufficient to learn the version control features.

The books writing is clear and the illustrated pictures
are all as they should be to someone new to version
control. The first 172 pages are what you need, but the
rest of the book, 330 pages (up till page 500) contain
documentation on nearly non-extinct software of SCCS
(Mostly found from basic Sun installations) and
software TCSS, which has never really been used
anywhere. The book devotes lot of pages to TCSS:
information that will never going to use, since there
is no TCCS in today's verison control world.

I suggest that you you print the RCS manual pages (they
are short) and spend your money on bying a CVS book
instead. CVS is more powerful and widely used free
version control client/server software.

Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No


 
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Save Your Money, March 2, 2000
The first half of this book is great for someone who has NEVER worked with any Version Control System (VCS) before or someone who is brand new to Source Code Management (SCM). It gives you the generic description of each segment of SCM, and then follows that with an explanation of how that segment is implemented in RCS and SCCS. Well, if you have EVER worked with any VCS before, you could simply read the man pages or check the web for all the information you'd need to get started with RCS. (I haven't used SCCS, so I won't comment on that portion of the book.)

The second half of the book explains TCCS, the authors' solution to extending RCS to Project Management. They suggest many approaches that I personally consider absurd. I've worked with many VCS tools and am currently in the process of implementing a Project Management system for a large IS corporation (500+ developers)...and plan on using few (if any) of the authors' suggestions for applying RCS.

In a nutshell, save your money, check the web, and good luck...

Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No

Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Most Recent Customer Reviews

2.0 out of 5 stars Good intro to source control
This book provided a good introduction to source control management but was week on implementation of an interface system. Read more
Published on April 17, 2000 by Dallas E Beek

2.0 out of 5 stars A good place to start, but only for the first three chapters
This book does a good job of discussing what Source Control is, and a decent job of describing how to use the RCS command set. Read more
Published on March 17, 2000

Only search this product's reviews



Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
Discussion Replies Latest Post
C# or Java? 66 16 days ago
Search Customer Discussions
Search all Amazon discussions
   



So You'd Like to...


Create a guide

Product Information from the Amapedia Community

Beta (What's this?)


Look for Similar Items by Category


Look for Similar Items by Subject

 

Feedback

If you need help or have a question for Customer Service, contact us.
 Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
Is there any other feedback you would like to provide?

Your comments can help make our site better for everyone.


Your Recent History

 (What's this?)

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.