Re: [comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.software-eng] Re: Which MSDOS RCS (GNU-RCS-5.5, MKSRCS, DOSRCS) is best?

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From: Paul Steinbach
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 14:03

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In article <1991Jun27.115046.19773@mks.com> rhyde@hubbell.ucr.edu (randy hyde) writes:
>MKSRCS is commerical software.  You're supposed to pay for it.  It definitely
>isn't "available" as shareware or PD, to my knowledge.  Just because somebody
>posted it to the net doesn't make it legal.  Unless MKS has released a toned
>down version, I'd be suspicious about this product.`
>
>*** Randy Hyde rhyde@ucrmath.ucr.edu

This version of RCS has no connection to the commercial version sold
by MKS.

It is a DOS version of a PD RCS that someone has modified to use the
long command lines provided by the MKS Korn shell.  Other than that, I
believe that it is the same as the PD DOS RCS.

-- Paul

(I'm not speaking officially for MKS, just hoping to avoid confusion.)

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From: paul@mks.com (Paul Steinbach)
Subject: Re: [comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.software-eng] Re: Which MSDOS RCS (GNU-RCS-5.5, MKSRCS, DOSRCS) is best?
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 91 14:03:00 GMT
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