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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: naked SCCS really SCCS!
Keywords: SCCS, shell_wrapper, Microport_SystemV, obnoxious_program
Message-ID: <1568@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 5 May 89 22:03:54 GMT
References: <297@tree.UUCP> <123@tdl.UUCP>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>How hard is it to use the 3 most routine commands of sccs which are
>admin (to create the archive), get (to extract versions from the 
>archive), and delta (to return a version to the archive)?

Harder than it is to use then with the "sccs" front end program from
BSD, which has the Berkeley "certified 100% AT&T-free" copyright notice
on it, and is thus freely distributable....

>I must admit that I have not used sccs to its full capability but I have
>done some significant programming projects with it.  It sure beats
>the heck out of making filename.old's and forgetting which version
>it was.

He didn't say "SCCS is worse than having nothing"; we all realize that
source control systems are helpful, it's just that the user interface to
SCCS isn't as good as it could be.