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Subject: RCS vs. SCCS and make
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Date: Thu, 4-Jun-87 09:13:39 EDT
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pete@esosun.UUCP (Pete Ware) asks:

>Is RCS fading away?  Who is distributing it with their systems
>these days -- Sun and Alliant do not.  I always thought RCS
>had more features and is faster then SCCS; why does Sun prefer
>SCCS?  On what machines can I count on make supporting
>either RCS or SCCS?

Ultrix-32 has both SCCS and RCS.  RCS is under the Unsupported subsets
while SCCS is Supported.  (Read warrantied for support...)  By the
way, SCCS with Ultrix is System V's SCCS, not the one distributed with
BSD. I don't use either enough to comment on why one is better than
the other.

Fred