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From: stan@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Stan Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Is RCS updated/fixed in 2.0?
Summary: Version of RCS used for 1.0 has 14 character file name limit.
Message-ID: <1007@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 8 Nov 90 09:39:34 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
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The current limit of 14 character file names in rcs makes it
nearly impossible to support meaningful filenames with "rcs". 
(rcs is the only Source Code Control System provided by NeXT.)

Does anyone know if NeXT has fixed this serious oversight with
their soon to be released version 2.0? 

We need 256 character file name support now, and can not wait for
2.0 to ship (or for it to be installed).   So we will start work on
porting the newer version tomorrow unless someone let's us know
about a port done somewhere else. 

Has anyone else run into this problem?
If yes, how did you solve it (or work around it)?

The man page for the version of rcs on our 1.0 systems has the
following identification: 

     Author: Walter F. Tichy, Purdue University, West Lafayette,
     IN, 47907.
     Revision Number: 3.1 ; Release Date: 83/04/04 .
     Copyright (C) 1982 by Walter F. Tichy.

The man page from the source code available from uunet.uu.net
has the following identification:

     Author: Walter F. Tichy, Purdue University, West Lafayette,
     IN, 47907.
     Revision Number: 1.3 ; Release Date: 89/05/02 .
     Copyright (C) 1982, 1988, 1989 by Walter F. Tichy.

The revision numbering scheme must have changed since 1983.
It is clear that NeXT is very likely using a version of rcs
that is 6 or more years behind what is, most likely, the latest 
version.

From looking in the source code for the '89 version it is clear that 
support for 256 character file names is now an option.

Does anyone know which tool NeXT is using for source code control?

Thanks in advance for your help with this.

Stan

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Stan Osborne, Computer Science Department, San Francisco State University
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