Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!kgw2!dennisg
From: dennisg@kgw2.bwi.WEC.COM (Dennis Glatting)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Is RCS updated/fixed in 2.0?
Message-ID: <1876@kgw2.bwi.WEC.COM>
Date: 9 Nov 90 13:13:48 GMT
References: <1007@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
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In article <1007@toaster.SFSU.EDU>, stan@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Stan Osborne) writes:
|> 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)?

say dude.  i downloaded the latest RCS from uunet ages ago (RCS 4.?).  i
ported it to the NeXT and the Sun.  no problem.  i didn't return the diffs 
because i didn't make the hack backwards compatible.


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