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From: ricks@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Rick Schaeffer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: RCS or SCCS on the Amiga Native?
Keywords: Revision Control Systems
Message-ID: <2607@iscuva.ISCS.COM>
Date: 27 Aug 89 16:23:07 GMT
References: <7751@cbmvax.UUCP>
Organization: ISC Systems Corporation, Spokane WA
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In article <7751@cbmvax.UUCP> mks@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael Sinz - CATS) writes:
>Has anyone done a port to Native AmigaDOS of RCS or SCCS?
>
>Is anyone doing such a port at this time?

I sent Michael a reply by email...but thought the rest of the net might
be interested.  I have a port of RCS running on my Amiga.  I have 
corresponded with the author about distributing it and he informed that
he would agree ONLY if I had a complete system working.  The only part
I am missing is rcsmerge...which requires a working "diff3" utility.  I
have gotten diff3 from the GNU effort and have it partially ported...it
wants to use "popen".  I wrote a popen which uses the AmigaDos PIPE:
device but it isn't very reliable and has particular problems with 
detecting the death of the child process.  I picked up the popen
routine which was posted here some weeks/months ago and have it working
but it also has problems with "death of a child" and also requires use
of ARP and Conman, which I want to avoid if possible.

If anyone has a reliable "popen" clone, please email it to me.  Any
other suggestions about detecting the presence and/or death of the
process being "piped" from are also welcome.
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