If you want to use RCS instead of CVS then you can use the following
shell scripts.
cotree.sh - Will check out the entire directory tree from RCS. Instead of
doing 'co -l name' on each file one-by-one, you can give just one command. Very useful
shell script.
cofiles.sh - Will check out all the files in the directory.
ciall.sh - Will check in all the files into RCS with just one shell command.