Download /BriefCase 3 Toolkit

/BriefCase Source Configuration Management System is distributed in
source form, per the GNU General Public License (GPL).  
 
*** 2006/12/05 Update *** /BriefCase Release 3.5-Beta-2.1-CYGWIN


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This update consists of a gzip'd tar file of the 3.5-Beta-2.1 /BriefCase
directory tree, with minor mods to support MS Windows clients which have
a full install of the latest Cygwin or Cygwin/X package!

Actually, only two /BriefCase files differ from the 3.5-Beta-2.1 release:


  /BriefCase/profiles/default - to recognize the Cygwin 'uname -a' output

  /BriefCase/BCprint - to recognize the Cygwin "OS" & default to HPLJ4
                       printer


One script file, /BriefCase/ncoall, has been DELETED to resolve a
(Windows) namespace collision between the old "ncoall" script and the
the faster, more functional "ncoAll" script (the underlying Windows OS
does not differentiate between upper and lower case letters in filenames).

These changes are compatible with existing /BriefCase 3.5-Beta-2.1
installations on Unix/Linux systems.


INSTALLATION NOTE: the BCconfig file in the .tgz file is a copy of the
working BCconfig file on a Windows-XP system, with a local /BriefCase
directory, and using ssh/scp for remote command execution and file
migration.  This is the preferred configuration for Windows clients,
and this BCconfig file is provided as a sample, to be configured to
reflect your actual /BriefCase server configuration.


3.5-Beta-2.1-CYGWIN - a gzip'd tar file containing only the /BriefCase tree
	/BriefCase-3.5-Beta2.1-CYGWIN.tgz (1.8 MB)

This .tgz file extracts the complete /BriefCase directory tree into
a subdirectory named "./BriefCase-3.5-Beta2.1".  A typical Windows
install would place the /Stage tree in the Cygwin "root" directory
(e.g. C:/), extract the .tgz file somewhere nearby (e.g. in /BC), and
make a symlink like:


     ln -s /BC/BriefCase-3.5-Beta2.1 /BriefCase


Users' .profile scripts would then connect to the /BriefCase server by
invoking /BriefCase/BC.profile or /BriefCase/BC.login, etc. the same as
on a Unix/Linux system, i.e.:


   . /BriefCase/BC.profile


or


   source /BriefCase/BC.login


FWIW, by combining the Cygwin X server and X clients with VNC or
TightVNC servers and viewers, advanced users can perform /BriefCase
(as wells as most other Unix/Linux) tasks seamlessly across Windows and
Unix/Linux peers!  The biggest limitation seems to be that the Cygwin X
server is limited (by the Windows "one user at a time" mindset) to a
single X "display" (:0.0).

NOTE: a copy of this update, called "README.cygwin", is included in
the .tgz file.

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*** 2005/03/10 Distribution *** /BriefCase Release 3.5-Beta-2.1


Major upgrade, many new features and bug fixes

3.5-Beta-2.1 Distribution tarball (tar file)
	/BriefCase-3.5-Beta2.1.tar (2MB)

After downloading the 3.5-Beta2.1 distribution, review the INSTALL
and README files very carefully!  Release 3.5-Beta-2.1 is minor upgrade of
prior Release 3.5 distributions, however Release 3.5 is a major upgrade
of releasees prior to Release 3.5 and contains several
new commands, numerous new flags/features on existing commands, many bug
fixes and some new documentation.

A major update of the "/BriefCase 3.0 User's Guide
and Reference" is in progress, but not ready at this time.  Some of the
more important changes and additions are documented in text files found
in the /BriefCase/docs/TechNotes directory.




Obsolete distributions:



 
*** 3.1a DISTRIBUTION *** 
3.1a Beta Distribution gzip'd tar file, with new INSTALL, README, manifest
and change report.
	/BC-3.1aBETA.tgz (2MB)

 
*** NEW for 3.1 *** for Sun Solaris 2.7/SPARC systems without C compilers!  
RCS-5.7 and diffutils-2.7 binaries for Solaris 2.7/SPARC, gzip'd tar file
	/BC-sparc-2.7.tgz (0.9MB)

 
*** NEW for 3.1 *** Linux/BASH Default Configuration!  
        with both x86/Linux and Sun SPARC/Solaris binaries.
	/BC-3.1.linux.tgz (5MB)