[mod.computers.vax] SOUP for VMS?

MIGLESIAS@UCIVMS.BITNET (Mike Iglesias) (03/11/86)

Is there anything like the old TOPS-10 SOUP package available for
VMS?  SOUP allowed you to generate update files with between any
kind of source files (for instance, between old and new DEC sources,
and old source and old source with local changes), merge change
files together, and then apply them to the original source
file to get a new source file with previous updates.  For example,

     FOO.OLD   (old DEC source)
     FOO.UCI   (old DEC source with UCI changes)
     FOO.NEW   (new DEC source)

     Compare FOO.OLD and FOO.UCI  -> FOO.UCG  (updates to FOO by UCI)
     Compare FOO.OLD and FOO.DEC  -> FOO.DCG  (updates to FOO by DEC)
     Merge FOO.UCG and FOO.DEC    -> FOO.MRG  (combine updates)
     Apply FOO.MRG to FOO.OLD     -> FOO.UNW  (FOO.NEW with UCI updates)

I'd prefer not to have to pay big bucks for this;  the price of 1 or
2 DECUS library tapes would be ok.


Thanks,

Mike Iglesias
University of California, Irvine
MIGLESIAS@UCIVMSA  (BITNET)