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From: lbr@holos0.uucp (Len Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: RCS port to MSDOS
Message-ID: <1990Nov16.165412.23289@holos0.uucp>
Date: 16 Nov 90 16:54:12 GMT
References: <1990Nov14.140421@Pkg.Mcc.COM>
Organization: Holos Software, Inc., Atlanta, GA
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Eepeep: WHAT, Noname?

In article <1990Nov14.140421@Pkg.Mcc.COM> steve@Pkg.Mcc.COM (Steve Madere) writes:
>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.

It was posted a while back to comp.binaries.ibm.pc.  It's not as code
as the MKS RCS port, but it cheaper. :-)

>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).

Both DOS RCS versions I've seen drop the ,v (which DOS won't allow
anyway) and insist that the rcs file be in the RCS subdirectory.

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

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

Don't know if files can start with -.  You need to double the backslash
inside "" or use a forward slash.  You don't need a lock under DOS,
anyway, do you?
-- 
Len Reed
Holos Software, Inc.
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