From:	Piet van Oostrum <piet AT cs DOT ruu DOT nl>
Date:	Tue, 18 Apr 1995 09:58:35 +0200
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: SCCS
References:	<9504171314 DOT AA03161 AT aisinc DOT com>

>>>>> den AT aisinc DOT com (Dave New) (DN) writes:

DN> There is an interesting port of RCS 5.5 for multi-platform development
DN> in the back of the O'Reilly book "Multi-Platform Code Management" by
DN> Kevin Jameson.

DN> I haven't tried it yet, but Kevin claims that it will compile and run
DN> on a wide variety of platforms, because he has eliminated the ",v"
DN> extension from the file-naming convention (the files are in a separate
DN> subdirectory anyway), and has changed the "RCS" directory to "rcs", so
DN> DOS can deal with the subdirectory name.

DN> Of course, in a plain DOS environment, there are no symbolic links, so
DN> the rcs directories are "real", but this is not perceived to be a
DN> problem using his approach if only a single developer is involved.  For
DN> multiple developers, symbolic links are needed.

One of the older implementations on HP/UX had a facility where "rcs" could
be a file containing the actual directory to put things in. If you have the
sources of the above implementation it wouldn't be hard to add this.
-- 
Piet van Oostrum <piet AT cs DOT ruu DOT nl>
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet

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