converting RCS archives

[TK Soh]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:38 AM, David Champion<dgc at uchicago.edu> wrote:
> * On 22 Jun 2009, TK Soh wrote:
>> I have some old scripts stored in RCS archives (yes, RCS!) that I'd
>> like to convert into mercurial repos, but 'hg convert' doesn't support
>> it. Any tools around to do this?
>
> RCS is the basis for CVS metadata, so try converting the RCS files to a
> CVS repo.  On Unix I would do:
>
> export CVSROOT=/tmp/cvs
> cvs init
> mkdir $CVSROOT/project
> mv *,v RCS/*,v $CVSROOT/project
> cvs co project
>
> and then do the hg convert based on the that cvs working copy and repo.

I am aware of this, but trying to find an easier way for this, as I
have to handle one RCS archieve (file) at a time.