This document is a "practical guide" to very quickly setup CVS/RCS source code control system. This document has custom shell scripts which are wrappers on top of CVS. These scripts provide an easy user interface for CVS. Several shell scripts are provided to make RCS more easy to use. The information in this document applies to Linux and as well as to all other flavors of Unix liks Solaris, HPUX, AIX, SCO, Sinix, BSD, SCO, etc.. and BeOS.