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From: torda@igc.ethz.ch (Andrew Torda)
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD]  SCCS  --  how do I get it working?
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wollman@sadye.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) wrote
[.. how to use sccs under *bsd ..]

>SCCS is AT&T, erm, Novell Proprietary.  You can't get it to work
>without a valid source license.  Use RCS.

Rather than just a glib quick answer, you might like to point
out that the move from SCCS to RCS is actually rather painless.
There is an excellent script that comes with the RCS
distribution (sccs2rcs) which lets you preserve your old
revision history.

-Andrew
-- 
Andrew Torda, Computational Chemistry, ETH, Zurich, torda@igc.ethz.ch