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From: bill@camco.Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: CVS for RCS 5.5?
Message-ID: <756@camco.Celestial.COM>
Date: 4 Mar 91 04:00:06 GMT
References: <1991Feb24.001617.6555@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> <1991Feb26.132018.2804@litwin.com> <1991Feb26.151950.3702@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> <1991Feb26.214540.18047@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In <1991Feb26.214540.18047@agate.berkeley.edu> ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga) writes:

>What are the chances of having CVS ported to SysV?
>I was having a look at the source code yesterday and it doesn't look
>hard.  Has any one done it?

>It needs the ndbm library.  Is gnu's gdbm a suitable replacement?

I have it running on Xenix 2.3.2.  It required writing some
routines to emulate the BSD specific functions called, shortening
a few file names to make them compatible with SysV 14 character
limits.

I'm using gdbm and it seems to be OK, but I don't fully
understand the modules stuff enough to properly test it.

I rewrote checkin in perl adding a few features such as the
ability to save the files before checkin and ignore binary and
empty files.

I can send patches if you like.

Bill.
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