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From: itmiller AT taz DOT dra DOT hmg DOT gb (Ian Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: djgpp port of RCS? (New improved summary)
Date: 28 Mar 1996 11:17:36 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:
|>
|>On 11 Mar 1996, Ian Miller wrote:
|>
|>> A DOS port of RCS can be found at SimTel in msdos/pgmutil/rcs567x.zip
|>> and rcs567s.zip.
|>> 
|>> It comes with its own DOS extenders...
|>
|>How is it better than the DJGPP port by Marc Singer (<elf AT netcom DOT com>, 
|>see the DJGPP FAQ for details)?...
|>
It isn't. Nobody mentioned it when I asked. (I'm not the only one who
forgets to check the FAQ it seems :-). However, I got the djgpp port
from ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/el/elf/rcsdos yesterday and I have the
following observations:

The djgpp port has nicer wildcard behaviour ("rlog RCS\*" will find .h and
cc files for instance), and a nice soft link facility.

The SimTel version comes with the GNU documentation.

Both work fine and seem to be able to work with each other's RCS files.

The djgpp version has the edge because it uses the djgpp diff utils, and
because it does not require its own DOS extender(s).
-- 
Ian Miller
(Using djgpp v2 for C++ in a Win95 DOS box on a 486DX4 100MHz)