SCCS2RCS(1) General Commands Manual SCCS2RCS(1) NAME sccs2rcs - build RCS file from SCCS file preserving deltas. USAGE sccs2rcs [options] [file-specifications] SYNOPSIS Sccs2rcs reads an sccs archive, analyzes its revision history and is- sues commands to the rcs checkin program to construct an equivalent rcs archive. DESCRIPTION This is an enhanced version of a utility sccstorcs, which translates an sccs archive into an rcs archive. The program reads the archive, ex- tracts the version numbers and comments and applies them to construct an equivalent archive in rcs format. There are two enhancements made. The fundamental change is that this utility preserves the time stamp information when translating. The secondary enhancement detects sccs keywords in the file, and re- places them by an rcs identifier. This works by searching for the string "@(#)" in each line, and replacing from that point til the end of the line (or the next quote character) with the rcs "Id" keyword. When keyword replacement is specified, the utility also looks for a suitable place to insert the rcs "Log" keyword. It does this by scan- ning each line that begins with the same string specified for the com- ment-prefix option, skipping whitespace and looking for (ignoring case) one of the following keywords, terminated by a colon: last, modified, revised, revision, updated, update OPTIONS -c string specifies the comment-prefix option in the rcs file. You should use this option when you use the "-e" option to translate key- words. -e attempts to replace sccs keywords by rcs keywords. Repeat the option to also edit the Log-comment. -q quiet, tells the sccs and rcs utilities to shut up. This option is overridden by "-v". -v verbose, controls the amount of messages that describe what the program is doing. Repeat this option to show the contents of the sccs file header. -t shows what would be done, but doesn't do it. FILES Sccs2rcs uses the following files getdelta A wrapper for the sccs utility get that checks out a file keep- ing its modification time the same as the original checkin time. checkin A wrapper for the rcs utility ci that checks in a file preserv- ing its modification time. SEE ALSO sccsfile (5), rcs (5), get (1), getdelta (1), checkin (1) AUTHOR Ken Greer Modified by Thomas Dickey (dickey@clark.net) to preserve time stamps, and to convert keywords. SCCS2RCS(1)