Make and RCS, help me find source code

Jennifer Merrill jenny at baker.dartmouth.edu
Thu May 31 00:34:12 AEST 1990


Back in 1985, some kind person on the net told me how to get RCS.  From
either the same person, or someone else (I can't recall), I also got a
version of Make that understood RCS.  It knew when a file version had changed
and automatically checked out a new version for me.  For our needs it was
perfect.

This was running on a VAX 750 (4.2 BSD).  We successfully move the binary
to a VAX 785 (4.3 BSD).  Now we've got a DEC 5810 RISC machine and the binary
can't be moved.  We used to have the source, but it disappeared and nobody 
knows when.  

A strings(1) on the binary reveals few clues, but some revisions were checked
in by 'fuka' and there's also a few occurrences of 'Walter F. Tichy' and
'Purdue'.

Is there any chance that this source code is still available somewhere?

For the record.  No, I don't want to change to SCCS.  Yes, I've tried GNUMake
and it doesn't behave the same way, and the differences are not a matter of
form but of function.

Any pointers to source would be greatly appreciated.
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Jennifer K. Merrill      (Jennifer.Merrill at dartmouth.edu)
Library Computing Services
Dartmouth College



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