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From: mayerar@pyuxe.UUCP (A Mayer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: RCS and SCCS
Message-ID: <661@pyuxe.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jun 88 20:03:17 GMT
References: <890@fig.bbn.com> <710@ubu.warwick.UUCP>
Reply-To: mayerar@pyuxe.UUCP (80132-A Mayer)
Organization: Bell Communications Research
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In article <710@ubu.warwick.UUCP> maujd@warwick.UUCP (Geoff Rimmer) writes:
>Which out of RCS and SCCS do people prefer?  I found rcs(1) by mistake
>in a manual page in our computer unit library - and I've found it very
>good.  What are the good and bad points of each system?
>
>Geoff.

One good point of RCS is that it stores the most recent version and 
uses deltas to get back to the previous versions.  SCCS stores the
original version and uses deltas to get to the most recent version.

		Andrew J. Mayer
		BELLCORE

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