Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!mks!wheels From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: SCCS vs. RCS Summary: MKS RCS was ported from licensed sources Message-ID: <381@mks.UUCP> Date: 25 Jan 88 17:23:48 GMT References: <720003@hpclskh.HP.COM> <580@dsacg3.UUCP> <377@mks.UUCP> <163@teak.athertn.Atherton.COM> Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont. Lines: 27 In article <163@teak.athertn.Atherton.COM>, ericb@athertn.Atherton.COM (Eric Black) writes: } Of course, Tichy is now at University of Karlsruhe, West Germany, at net } address . I further quote from a letter he sent } me in November, 1987: } } However, there is a newer release of RCS, release 4. This release } is a much improved version, and upward compatibel [sic] with } release 3...In addition, I now have a version of MAKE that is } integrated with RCS. } ... } I can offer release 4 of RCS together with the new MAKE at a } one-time fee of $5000 for a world-wide non-exclusive license. } -- } Eric Black "Garbage in, Gospel out" } UUCP: {sun!sunncal,hpda}!athertn!ericb } Domainist: ericb@Atherton.COM The port that MKS did for MS-DOS is from these newer version 4 sources, which we licensed directly from Mr. Tichy. The only major changes we had to make were in the areas of file name conventions (DOS doesn't allow names like "foo.c,v") and file locking. Other than that, it is all pretty well generic C code. -- Gerry Wheeler Phone: (519)884-2251 Mortice Kern Systems Inc. UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!wheels 35 King St. North BIX: join mks Waterloo, Ontario N2J 2W9 CompuServe: 73260,1043