naked SCCS really SCCS!

Guy Harris guy at auspex.auspex.com
Sat May 6 08:03:54 AEST 1989


>How hard is it to use the 3 most routine commands of sccs which are
>admin (to create the archive), get (to extract versions from the 
>archive), and delta (to return a version to the archive)?

Harder than it is to use then with the "sccs" front end program from
BSD, which has the Berkeley "certified 100% AT&T-free" copyright notice
on it, and is thus freely distributable....

>I must admit that I have not used sccs to its full capability but I have
>done some significant programming projects with it.  It sure beats
>the heck out of making filename.old's and forgetting which version
>it was.

He didn't say "SCCS is worse than having nothing"; we all realize that
source control systems are helpful, it's just that the user interface to
SCCS isn't as good as it could be.



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