Does anybody here use revision control software.  I have been using RCS,
    one of the GNU utilities, for a long time and would not be without it or
    smemthing equivlaent.  Unfortunately it is a DOS based, command line
    driven set of programs and evidently too complex for the younger members
    of our company to grasp.  Did I mention that it is a free program.

Cisco has been throught (nothing), RCS, CVS, and now "ClearCase" as we grew
and the previous solutions failed to scale.  Since the CVS time, we've done
little wrappers and custom changes to prevent the users (that's me) from
needing to mess with the gritty details.  RCS was fine for a relatively
small number of engineers.  CVS was good for a large number of engineers -
each would get their own copy of everything and then things would get merged
back together.  That broken when each engineer needed about 2G to compile
everything.  Clearcase gives the illusion of a private copy of everything
while sharing the actual storage, but it's perceived to slow everything
down (whether it really does is hard to tell, given that moving to it
also involved a new compute environment.)

It SHOULD be possible to put some "modern" wrappers around RCS, if RCS is
otherwise sufficient.  I have an emacs macro that I bind to a key so that if
I need to edit a file, I type ^C O, and the file gets the equivilent of
"checked out" for any of the three environments, for example.

BillW