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"D. D. Brierton" <darren@dzr-web.com> writes:

> The piece of the puzzle I am missing is what the differences are between
> PCL-* and RC-* in Emacs.

Emacs does not contain rc-*, do you mean vc-* or are you using XEmacs
or some add on package?

PCL-CVS is a higher level interface that works on top of vc-cvs. It
offers some CVS specific functionality in dired-like buffers, where
vc-cvs offers generic version control functionality for CVS.