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RCS For DOS...

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From: Paul F Smith
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1991 16:47
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First, >MANY<, >MANY< thanks to everyone who helped me to find
a version of GNU RCS for MS-DOS!

Now that I have it...

I could only find version 4.2 of RCS ported to DOS. Is 5.5 
(or is there a 5.6?) available for DOS? Will it be soon?

I found a couple of flavors of RCS 4.2 for DOS: One didn't have all
of the commands (missing rcsclean, rcsmerge, and a couple of others).
Another had rcsmerge in it, and still another had (I think) all of
the commands, except that it's called the MKS version where some of the
commands are actually ksh scripts. I don't know what MKS is (please
bear with me here :-), but I could probably convert the ksh programs
to DOS .bat, but will the .exe's run under DOS? Or are they for 
a version of ksh that was ported to DOS? (possibly called MKS? :-)

Anyway, has anyone put together a complete RCS package, or should I just
wait for 5.5 to be ported? Maybe I don't really need all of the commands?

In the mean time I have begun to RTFM, but I'm in a hurry.
Any info to fill in the gaps would be a big help! 

Thanks very much!!!

PS.
Oh, yea...
Can RCS handle binary files, such as a Microsoft Word 5.0 document?
Thanks again!
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