From: Piet van Oostrum 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 http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet