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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: RCS source availability
Message-ID: <7148@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 89 19:13:18 GMT
References: <7012@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <7012@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> narten@cs.purdue.EDU (Thomas Narten) writes:
> Version 4 of RCS is now available from arthur.cs.purdue.edu in
> pub/RCS/rcs.tar and pub/RCS/rcs.tar.Z.  The latest version is
> distributed under the same licensing policy as FSF software.  It is
> known to work on Suns (mc68000 and sparc) under the 3.x and 4.x
> releases of Sun OS as well as on VAXen and other 4.2/4.3 based
> systems.  This version is in substantially better shape than the
> version currently distributed with 4.{2,3} BSD derived systems.

How does the "Version 4" relate the "Version 4.1" and patches that
have been on uunet for quite a while.  Is this something new and
different or just confusion?

From uunet:

/usr/spool/ftp/pub/rcs:
-rw-r--r--  1 dsc        527247 Jan 19 09:57 rcs_v4.1.doc.tar.Z
-rw-r--r--  1 dsc          9586 Jul  8  1988 rcs_v4.1.note.01
-rw-r--r--  1 dsc           589 Jul  7  1988 rcs_v4.1.patch.01
-rw-r--r--  1 dsc          1455 Apr 19 19:18 rcs_v4.1.patch.02
-rw-r--r--  1 dsc           545 Aug  8  1988 rcs_v4.1.patch.03
-rw-r--r--  1 dsc        837215 May 19  1988 rcs_v4.1.tar.Z
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