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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: rcs for SysV
Message-ID: <1989Oct15.005214.26866@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 15 Oct 89 00:52:14 GMT
References: <78@vidiot.UUCP> <1367@celit.fps.com>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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As quoted from <1367@celit.fps.com> by billd@fps.com (Bill Davidson):
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| They no longer distribute rdiff or rdiff3 so you should keep the old ones if
| your system diff and diff3 aren't up to snuff (or get gnu diff).
+---------------

I wondered how they got around AT&T....

+---------------
| I brought 4.2 up on Microport System V/AT release 2.2 (talk about a hostile
> . . .
| In the past, I also ported 3.0 to System V and that was living hell. I had to
| fix the previously mentioned time function and a zillion things that expected
| pointers and ints to be the same size and that they were all 32 bits etc. 4.2
| doesn't seem to have any such problems.  The code is looks much cleaner and
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Puh-LEEZE!  Don't ascribe to System V the limitations of the 80286 processor.
On a 680x0 or an 80386, System V has sizeof (int) == sizeof (char *), so
Berzerk stupidity can be handled as is.

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| Does anyone know why Berkeley (or anyone in their right mind) still uses SCCS?
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Because more people have access to it, presumably.  (Me, I use RCS.)

++Brandon
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