Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: SCCS for HP series 9000
Message-ID: <3458@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 13 Jun 90 17:47:00 GMT
References: <3434@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> <1380@esatst.yc.estec.nl> <3436@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>What I can tell is my experience with switching from a Sun to a HP
>about 1.5 years ago. Alle files stored in a SCCS archive by a Sun
>could not be extracted on a HP system.

As in "no files stored in an SCCS archive by a Sun could be extracted on
an HP system" or "not all files stored in an SCCS archive by a Sun could
be extracted on an HP system"?

I would find the former next to impossible to believe; the SunOS SCCS is
based on the S3 (sic) one, with some tweaks, and I assume the HP one is
based on some S5 release, so they both come from the same basic AT&T
code.

The latter is possible; at one point, a hack was stuck into the SunOS
SCCS to allow you to stick binary files under SCCS.  They get uuencoded;
it's possible that those files would confuse an unmodified SCCS.