RCS (was Help us defend against VMS)

David Collier-Brown daveb at geac.UUCP
Fri Mar 25 04:14:39 AEST 1988


In article <7537 at ncoast.UUCP> allbery at ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) writes:
[about RCS]
> ...but requires a source code license, since it includes 4.xBSD diff sources
> modified for RCS.  This leaves binary ncoast out in the cold, with SCCS which
> is nowhere near as nice to use.  (If this has changed, someone please tell me
> so I can get my hands on it!)
> -- 
  Well, it probably hasn't changed, but one CAN get a copy without
the diff source (just the patches) and modify one of the PD diffs.
That's what we did at Honeywell TSDC & CCSC when we didn't have Unix
licences for our DPS-8s.
  It took about half a day...

 --dave
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