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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: rcs for SysV
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Date: 16 Oct 89 23:02:18 GMT
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>I understand that RCS stores the last version of the file and deltas to
>previous versions,

True.

>while SCCS stores the first version and deltas from then onward.

Possibly true of ancient versions of SCCS, but not true of the versions
of SCCS that come with any version of UNIX people are likely to run
(i.e., not true of the S3 or S5 versions of SCCS - the SunOS version is
basically the S3 version).  Those versions use a scheme that requires
the same amount of time to retrieve any version.