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From: ccsdra@gdt.bath.ac.uk (Dave Allum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Getting RCS to work
Message-ID: <1991Mar7.124855.7621@gdt.bath.ac.uk>
Date: 7 Mar 91 12:48:55 GMT
References: <11270006@hpnmdla.hp.com>
Organization: BUCS, University of Bath, U.K.
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In article <11270006@hpnmdla.hp.com> john@hpnmdla.hp.com (John McLaughlin) writes:
> ... stuff deleted ...
>
>DOSRCSMP continas the manual pages (documentation) for RCS and however
>both DOSRCSEX.ZIP and SH_RCSE.ZIP contined executable versio ns
>of ci, co, rcs, etc....... Why? what were the differences?
>why have 3 parts? Additio nally SH_RCSEX.ZIP seemed to contain
>KSH scripts (not much good for dos... I think...) so we had
>a mystery on our hands (oh yes, of course None of them work
>straight out of the box)....
> 
> ... stuff deleted ...

As I understand it the SH_RCSEX.ZIP executables are designed to work under 
the MKS shell and provide command line expansion etc. The shell scripts are 
intended for that environment too.