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From: ted@braggvax.arpa
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: sccs front end
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Date: 29 Jan 88 23:00:42 GMT
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>From: "Greg A. Woods " <woods@tslanpar.uucp>
>Subject: Re: SCCS vs. RCS

>   One thing that is MUCH more difficult with SCCS than it was with VCS is to
>   hide all of the special files in another directory.  What makes it hard with
>   SCCS is that none of the commands support an option or environment variable
>   to accomplish this task, and none of the make rules properly support such a
>   feature either.  (One could write a new set of make rules, and use the little
>   documented "include" feature).

Actually, with BSD systems (4.2, 4.3 and SunOS anyway), there is a command 
called "sccs" that acts as a front end to the sccs command family and 
lets you keep all your sccs files in an SCCS directory.

				Ted Nolan
				ted@braggvax.arpa