"Practical guide" for CVS/RCS quickly setup 

CVS-RCS-HOWTO, CVS-RCS HOWTO for Linux
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CVS-RCS-HOWTO.html

v21.7, 2001-10-13

This document is a "practical guide" to very quickly setup CVS/RCS source code control system. This document has custom shell scripts that are wrappers on top of CVS. These scripts provide an easy user interface for CVS.

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The above url has good directory structure, but the info is dated (v4.0, 15 November 1999).

Has the newiest version, better directory structure, but contents are enclosed in tables.