To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Where are RCS docs?
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From: Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi>
Date: 11 Aug 2000 08:37:42 +0300
In-Reply-To: "Eli Zaretskii"'s message of "Thu, 10 Aug 2000 19:31:27 +0200"
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:

> > Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 10:04:15 -0500 (CDT)
> > From: Jeff Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>

> > And the DJGPP port of RCS is the only option for those without LFN support.

> Are you saying that the ported CVS doesn't work on plain DOS?

While I can't speak for Jeff, the fact is that the ported CVS needs LFN
support to work.  (I mentioned this in an email to you last October.)

> If so, is it because it doesn't have an alternative for the foo.c,v
> file names?

That's the immediate reason, though there may be others.  Unfortunately,
the CVS maintainers seem unwilling to offer any alternative to the ,v
suffix, judging by the comments on the CVS manual about the -x option
(before they changed its meaning to enable encryption).

-- 
Esa Peuha
student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/