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From: robl@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (R. Luursema)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Working Version of RCS?
Message-ID: <1133@idcapd.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 8 Mar 91 16:26:53 GMT
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In article <91065.084335NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET> 
  greg%wind.uucp@plains.nodak.edu (Greg Wettstein) writes:
><...> I picked up the 5.5 sources from
>prep.ai.mit.edu and ported them to MS-DOS under MSC 5.5.  <...> I currently
>have the port in a condition in which it passes the rcstest script completely.
>My intention (if there is interest) is to pack up the binaries and ship
>them to our eminent moderator for distribution.
I think thats a very good idea!

I picked up RCS from c.b.i.p last year (Posted 17 Aug 90, V07i145), but
I failed to get it working properly.  And it couldn't be fixed without 
recompiling with the right set of flags. So I put this pakage aside.

>I will enclose a copy of ed in the binaries package so
>that users will have access to pretty much everything they need to get
>started with version control under MS-DOS.  I assume that everyone has
>a copy of GNU DIFF 1.14 or has the ability to get at it.  If this
>assumption is incorrect please advise me and I could package up diff and
>diff3 as well.  

Please Mr. Wettstein, make the package as complete as possible, with the 
right set of tools. Make it independent of tools someone may have laying 
around but are of version 1.1 while RCS requires version 2.0 for example. 
So include the tools required and not obvious a dos-user would have, and
provided they are free/share-ware.  DIFF(3) and SH are not obvious since 
there are dozens versions of it.  ED is also not obvious, while EDLIN is.
I have MKS toolkit which contain the necessary tools, but I am not sure 
if it all works flawless. II'd rather stick to something thoroughly tested.

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