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From: steve@Pkg.Mcc.COM (Steve Madere)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: RCS port to MSDOS
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Date: 14 Nov 90 20:04:21 GMT
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I was working on a port of RCS (revision control system) to
MS-DOS when it occurred to me that maybe someone had already
done this.  I checked the GNUish msdos archive and found the
following message in the README fileREADME for the GNUish MS-DOS project.



>The following GNU tools have already been ported to DOS, and will be
>added later in the GNUish MS-DOS subdirectory:

>	bison chess compress ctags gawk perl rcs readline


Does anyone know where I can find this port of RCS to msdos?
If it is not yet available, is there any timetable for it's release?

I am pretty close to completing my port but it has some major
kludges in it.  Files that are checked-in can have no more than one
character in the extension (to make room for the ,v).
The user name and uid problems are nowhere near solved.  For the moment
I have hard-coded my name and the number 1 into the program as the
user name and uid.  I can of course change this to prompting the
user for the value or checking an environment variable but I would
prefer to just get somebody else's port if it already exists.
No use re-inventing the wheel when it comes to GNU software.

Also, does anyone know why this should fail in Turbo C. Version 2.0?

creat(".\-test.c",000)

It is being used to create a locking semaphore for the file test.c
and it keeps failing.