Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!fred
From: fred@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl (Fred Appelman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: SCCS for HP series 9000
Message-ID: <3471@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 15 Jun 90 19:10:07 GMT
References: <3434@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> <1380@esatst.yc.estec.nl> <3436@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> <3458@auspex.auspex.com>
Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of CS
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In article <3458@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:

>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.

You are probably right about this. I normally store programs and .o files
in the archive too. I never realised that this might be reason of the
failure.

Fred Appelman (fred@cv.ruu.nl)