This area contains ports of Gnu Make 3.60 and Gnu RCS (Revision
Control System) V5.6 to VMS. Sources were obtained from the
author and built by your librarian [Glenn Everhart] from those
sources. Both sources and the compiled programs are here.

Gnu Make is a utility to intelligently rebuild files from
sources given a "makefile" which lists dependencies. It ensures
that files are only compiled or linked when they have changed
so that a make can be executed and the program will ensure that
all files are recompiled and linked that need to be, and that
no others are rebuilt. This can save much time.

RCS (and also gnu diff, needed for it) is included also. RCS
stands for Revision Control System, a very widely used source
control package for many systems. RCS lets you maintain many
revision levels, and keep controlled source versions around
with notations about what changes were made and why.

RCS and Make are the generic, industry standard versions of what
DEC sells as CMS and MMS respectively. Learn them and you should
be able to use them on almost anyone's platforms.

The port of RCS here is of the RCS version current as of 12/1992;
earlier RCS ports were of V4.3, a somewhat older revision.