Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!daveb
From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: RCS (was Help us defend against VMS)
Message-ID: <2488@geac.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 88 18:14:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.2488
Posted: Thu Mar 24 13:14:39 1988
References: <8803071927.AA02829@decwrl.dec.com> <8120009@eecs.nwu.edu> <7537@ncoast.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Organization: The geac Honeywell department.
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In article <7537@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) writes:
[about RCS]
> ...but requires a source code license, since it includes 4.xBSD diff sources
> modified for RCS.  This leaves binary ncoast out in the cold, with SCCS which
> is nowhere near as nice to use.  (If this has changed, someone please tell me
> so I can get my hands on it!)
> -- 
  Well, it probably hasn't changed, but one CAN get a copy without
the diff source (just the patches) and modify one of the PD diffs.
That's what we did at Honeywell TSDC & CCSC when we didn't have Unix
licences for our DPS-8s.
  It took about half a day...

 --dave
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