gaspar@almsa-1.arpa (Al Gaspar) (08/11/88)
Does anyone know of a public domain version of RCS that will run under System V? (I don't want to convert all of our RCS files to SCCS.) I was going to port the version 3(?) RCS from our 4.2bsd source tape, but there is a copyright notice :-(. Please reply to me directly. Thanks in advance-- Al -- Al Gaspar <gaspar@almsa-1.arpa> USAMC CSDA, ATTN: AMXAL-OW, Box 1578, St. Louis, MO 63188-1578 COMMERCIAL: (314) 263-5118 AUTOVON: 693-5118 uunet.uu.net!almsa-1.arpa!gaspar
woods@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Greg Woods) (08/13/88)
I find SCCS is by far the more powerful and capable of the two.
Why not try getting Eric Allman's sccs front end to work. I use few
simple csh aliases to control it. You can make SCCS easier to use than
RCS, AND gain a simple way to hide the s-files in a sub-directory.
My understanding is that sccs.c is copyright by the University of
California, Berkely, but is not covered by any license, so SHOULD freely
be available. I've not noticed any copyright on it's documentation.
If not, there must be other tools like it.
(I wish someone would clarify the BSD situation regarding the licensing
of the non AT&T code, and if it's free, make it AVAILABLE.)
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VOICE: (416) 242-7572 [h] LOCATION: Toronto, Ontario, Canadaroy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (08/14/88)
woods@gpu.utcs.Toronto.EDU (Greg Woods) writes: > I find SCCS is by far the more powerful and capable of the two. Spoken like somebody who has used both of them and is thus in a position to "compare and contrast". Please do -- unsupported "X is better than Y" statements leave the reader cold. Me? I'm a true-blue RCS fan (RCS vs. SCCS has to rank up there with Sys5 vs. BSD and emacs vs. vi for silly religious wars). I find RCS basicly does everything I need to do. On the other hand, if somebody could show me why SCCS is better in concrete terms, I might consider changing my mind. I guess that means I not a True Believer. -- Roy Smith, System Administrator Public Health Research Institute {allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net "The connector is the network"
mjh@uunet.uu.net (Mark J. Hewitt) (08/16/88)
Al,
If you find out where to get a PD RCS for USG, I'd be more than
grateful for the info m'self - could you publish via news, or mail me
directly, with the results of your enquiry please?
Mark J. Hewitt
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