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Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 15:46:41 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jeff Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
Subject: versioning system
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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I'd like to get some experience with a versioning system.

From poking through the readme files (see below) it seems that RCS is
the only versioning system ported for use with djgpp that will work
with short file names and under plain DOS.

Until a SFN-capable CVS port is available, I'll try out RCS.  But, I
see that the RCS 5.7 port was compiled with DJGPP v2.01; should I try
to recompile using 2.02?  Has anyone experienced any problems with 2.02
and RCS 5.7.13 ?

TIA---jtw

P.S. Maybe RCS is a sledgehammer for my very simple C programs and
text manuscripts; feel free to suggest something else.


From the CVS 1.9 readme:

This is hacked port of CVS 1.9 to DJGPP 2.x.
IMPORTANT: This currently REQUIRES long filenames (it needs the ,v suffix on
 its RCS repository files). I may patch it later so it can work with the
 DJGPP-patched RCS.

From the CVS 1.10 readme:

IMPORTANT: CVS uses many filenames for its files that are illegal under MS-DOS.
It also uses its own routines instead of an external RCS now, so none of the
 extensions of the DJGPP port of RCS will work.
As such, this port is only suited for use under Win9x with LFNs enabled.
I may try to patch CVS for DOS, but it is unlikely that such an endeavour would
 be simple (or even possible without breaking the code).