Advantages of SCCS?

[Stephen Carter]

From: Stephen Carter <stevedc at syma.sussex.ac.uk>

>From article <672 at longway.TIC.COM>, by eggert at dew.uucp (Paul Eggert):
> From: uunet!twinsun!dew!eggert (Paul Eggert)
> 
> In comp.std.unix 19:96 hlj at posix.COM (Hal Jespersen) writes:
> 
> 	The group was overwhelmingly in favor of using SCCS as the superior
> 	technical solution, but SCCS has two problems:
> 
> Could someone in the group summarize why the group decided that SCCS is
> superior technically?  Tichy's paper on RCS says that it is usually faster than
etc...


Agreed.

Could I second Paul's request for elaboration of this one.  Everything I
have read has indicated that RCS is better, so I was going to  go for it
- but I would rather be with the 'future proof' facility.

Ta.

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