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From: mike@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Mike McNelly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Possible sccs bug
Message-ID: <9330016@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
Date: 25 Jun 91 15:20:43 GMT
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> I'm trying to use the sccs command as a front end to the Source Code
> Control Programs as described in the man pages.  Something seems to be
> wrong though:
> 
> sccs get abstract.tex
> sccs SYSERR: cannot execute /usr/bin/get
> No such file or directory
> 
> sccs exists and lives in /usr/ucb
> ls -l /usr/ucb/sccs
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root        38215 Jun  8  1990 /usr/ucb/sccs
> 
> get exists and lives in /usr/bin
> ls -l /usr/bin/get
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root        54281 Feb  2  1990 /usr/bin/get
> 
> Similar problems occur with admin(1), help(1), etc. etc.
> Am I being dense or is something not right?  Other, wiser Apollo users
> around here think something's not right!  Your suggestions, please.
> 
> I'm using Domain/OS 10.3 with the BSD 4.3 setup.  I remember using this
> under 10.2 (?) with no problems.

It's likely that your sccs file is "s.abstract.tex", not "abstract.tex"?
Then your get command should be "get s.abstract.tex", which will
retrieve a copy of abstract.tex for you.

This is a common sccs fingerslip on any sccs system, not just Apollos.

Hope this helps.
Mike McNelly
mike@fc.hp.com