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Aegis
A Project Change Supervisor
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User Guide
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Peter Miller
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millerp@canb.auug.org.au
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DEDICATIONS
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This user guide is dedicated to my wife
Mary Therese Miller
for all her love and support
despite the computers.
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And to my grandmother
Jean Florence Pelham
1905 \(em 1992
Always in our hearts.
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This document describes Aegis version \*(v)
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and was prepared \*(DY.
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This document describing the Aegis program,
and the Aegis program itself,
are
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Copyright \*(C) \*(Y) Peter Miller;
All rights reserved.
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
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Aegis is a CASE tool with a difference.
In the spirit of the
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Operating System,
Aegis is a small component designed to work with other programs.
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Many CASE systems attempt to provide everything,
from bubble charts to source control to compilers.
Users are trapped with the components supplied by the CASE system,
and if you don't like one of the components (it may be too limited,
for instance), then that is just tough.
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In contrast, 
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provides many components of a CASE system - compilers,
editors, dependency tools (such as make), source control (such as RCS).
You may substitute the tool of your choice - gcc, jove, cake,
rcs (to name a few) if you don't like the ones supplied with the system.
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Aegis adds to this list with software configuration
management (SCM),
and consistent with
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philosophy,
Aegis does not dictate the choice of any of the other tools
(although it may stretch them to their limits).
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