From: elf AT netcom DOT com (Marc Singer)
Message-Id: <199701100856.AAA29588@netcom4.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: rcs - 'out of the box'
To: gerrit AT fs1 DOT bouw DOT tno DOT nl (G.J. Doornink)
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 00:56:37 -0800 (PST)
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> The 'official' port of GNU RCS is available from the following sites:
> 
> ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/gnu/devtools/
> 	or
> the "Simtel" archive 
> 	or
> ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/... (see 00index.txt for exact location)
> 
> Get the following files: rcs57pc1.zip and rcs57pc2.zip
> 
> These files contain the source code and the DOS16, DOS32, OS/2 and
> Win32 console binaries for rcs, diff and merge. The DOS and Win32
> console versions work perfectly with DJGPP. The Win32 console version
> knows about long file names on Win95 and WinNT.
> 
> The DOS port done by Marc Singer is almost the same but implements a
> kind  of symbolic link facility for MS-DOS and some other minor
> changes.

The maintainer was planning to implement all of my patches which
include a couple of bug fixes for binary files, but he refused to
include the RCS_LINKS.  I suggested that it could be added as a
compile-time option, but he felt it was unimportant.

I would say that for users on WinNT where LFN support through DJGPP is
absent in WinNT3.5, but I think it is present in 4.0 (right?), the
Win32 native port would be best.  If you need the RCS_LINKS feature,
there is only one option.  I am a strong supporter of centralized
management of tool maintanence.  If you use RCS_LINKS, please let Paul
Eggert know so that we can get all of the patches into the main code.

I do plan to recompile for v2.01 just in case anyone still want to use
my versions.  I'm downloading the latest distribution as I write this
letter.  (Thanks for GNU/Linux.)

-- Marc Singer