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From: stevedc@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Stephen Carter)
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Subject: Re: Advantages of SCCS?
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Date: 8 May 90 13:22:43 GMT
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From: Stephen Carter <stevedc@syma.sussex.ac.uk>

>From article <672@longway.TIC.COM>, by eggert@dew.uucp (Paul Eggert):
> From: uunet!twinsun!dew!eggert (Paul Eggert)
> 
> In comp.std.unix 19:96 hlj@posix.COM (Hal Jespersen) writes:
> 
> 	The group was overwhelmingly in favor of using SCCS as the superior
> 	technical solution, but SCCS has two problems:
> 
> Could someone in the group summarize why the group decided that SCCS is
> superior technically?  Tichy's paper on RCS says that it is usually faster than
etc...


Agreed.

Could I second Paul's request for elaboration of this one.  Everything I
have read has indicated that RCS is better, so I was going to  go for it
- but I would rather be with the 'future proof' facility.

Ta.

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