Date: Mon, 17 Apr 95 09:14:40 EDT
From: den AT aisinc DOT com (Dave New)
To: leisner AT sdsp DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com
Subject: Re: SCCS
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

 
 
> But after experiences both RCS on dos and unix, I'd say for 
> serious development, look into setting up a unix box as
> a server to do source control on.  RCS and SCCS ust two "magic"
> letters appended/prepended to the filename and if you are using
> the 8+3 limit without a seperate directory, you have a problem. 
> 
> marty
> 

There is an interesting port of RCS 5.5 for multi-platform development in
the back of the O'Reilly book "Multi-Platform Code Management" by Kevin Jameson.

I haven't tried it yet, but Kevin claims that it will compile and run on a wide
variety of platforms, because he has eliminated the ",v" extension from the
file-naming convention (the files are in a separate subdirectory anyway), and
has changed the "RCS" directory to "rcs", so DOS can deal with the subdirectory
name.

Of course, in a plain DOS environment, there are no symbolic links, so the
rcs directories are "real", but this is not perceived to be a problem using
his approach if only a single developer is involved.  For multiple developers,
symbolic links are needed.

I have no stake in this book or O'Reilly, just a fan of their books...

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