Instructions for getting and using the RCS Library Example Set

The examples in the other RCS Library documents are available together in one set, which also includes makefiles and a directory structure for multi-platform development.

  1. Get examples.tar.Z(35k) or examples.zip(25k)
  2. In the newly created src directory edit Makefile.include so that EXAMPLE_APP_DIRECTORY is the directory where you extracted files from examples.tar. If necessary, change PROGTOOLS_DIRECTORY to point to the directory where the RCS programmer's tools have been installed.
  3. Run "gnumake PLAT=???" from the src directory with ??? replaced by one of the following: sunos4, sunos5, vxworks5.1, lynxosPC or lynxosVME.
  4. Run the programs created in the bin directory of the appropriate plat sub-directory after reading the on-line documentation to determine what each example is supposed to do.

Last Modified: 11/18/96

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