Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!drivax!alexande From: alexande@drivax.UUCP (Mark Alexander) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: RCS - was: Re: GNU diff for MSDOS Message-ID: Date: 19 Jul 90 16:46:53 GMT References: <1990Jul13.181022.2792@cc.ic.ac.uk> <886@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> Distribution: na Organization: none Lines: 21 In article <886@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> jsin@seashell.seas.ucla.edu (Just Another John) writes: >Few month ago, I had ported RCS 3.? to DOS and got it to work ok with >MKS Toolkit's diff.exe. It was pretty easy, once you decide how to deal >with DOS's filename limitations. I hadn't really tested it thoroughly, so >I don't know if my port was any good. If GNU diff supports -n option, >perhaps someone can port the latest version of RCS to DOS. > >Any takers? I had planned on doing it when I have more spare time... I recently completed a port of GNU RCS to MS-DOS, using Turbo C 2.0. I didn't use GNU diff, because I was worried about memory usage (it reads both files into memory). Instead, I used a public domain diff that keeps only the line hash tables in memory. It works well, but it is a bit slower. I haven't thoroughly tested all the features yet (such as three-way merges), but the basic commands seem pretty solid. If anyone is interested in the package, please reply by email. Maybe by then I'll have decided how to send out the source (email or ZOO file on floppy). -- Mark Alexander (uunet!drivax!alexande)