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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:32:28 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jeff Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
Subject: Re: Where are RCS docs?
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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-: > 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?
-: 
-: If so, is it because it doesn't have an alternative for the foo.c,v
-: file names?

I have never tried to use the DJGPP port of CVS under DOS/bash; my
information comes from the readme's provided with the CVS and RCS
ports, and from the CVS web site, and those plainly state that LFN
support is required for current CVS versions.

I suspect that the ,v filename suffix is the main, and perhaps only,
problem.  Certainly CVS could be modified to use a ./cvs directory
instead of suffixes (similar to what RCS does), and to have a
functioning `-xsuffixes' option (as does RCS).  From the CVS info
file:

`-xSUFFIXES'
     In previous versions of CVS, this was documented as a way of
     specifying the names of the RCS files.  However, CVS has always
     required that the RCS files used by CVS end in `,v', so this
     option has never done anything useful.

Probably it is just that no one has gotten around to making the
necessary modifications for SFN support, and the task is beyond my
present abilities :(  The RCS patch file (src/rcs-5.7/MSDOS/patch13)
in rcs5713b.zip might be instructive if anyone wants to try.