Step by Step guide to using UD6/CMtool driver and Uniface with PVCS Version Manager

What is PVCS

PVCS is a popular commercial source code management tool for Windows and Unix environments. It offers basic of support for CM, using SCCS-like commands, and is considered most appropriate for small development projects.

Its market share appears to be continually diminished by CVS and WinCVS, however at the time of writing the vendor had just released a major update, PVCS 6.5, which is what will be described here.

The home of PVCS on the web is http://www.merant.com

A complete list of configuration management tools can be found at

ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/comp.answers/sw-config-mgmt/cm-tools

If you have not already done so, please read A methodology to Uniface source code control before you continue with these topics and examples.

UD6/CMtool driver has been tested with the abovementioned product, and this documentation has been written using the operating environment described above. Other operating environments should work, however specific instructions may vary.