[TUHS] SVN of CSRG Releases

Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
Wed Jan 14 12:37:52 AEST 2015


On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 01:24:27PM +1100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 14 January 2015 at 12:55:57 +1100, Warren Toomey wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 05:42:56PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> >> Aren't the SCCS sources for the real history online?  I know Kirk made
> >> them available on his CD, I have them somewhere.
> >
> > In a previous private e-mail I received from Kirk, he said:
> > 	The folks at UC
> > 	Berkeley have always required me to track distributions of the SCCS
> > 	files as they somehow think of them as still sensitive.
> >
> > which implies that the SCCS files cannot be released publicly. However,
> > the SVN version is a "derivative" of the SCCS files and, on that basis,
> > is publicly available. Go figure :)
> 
> Considering that all the SCCS files are on the CDs that Kirk
> distributed, that's particularly strange.  My thought was that, with
> the exception of Larry, nobody has the SCCS software any more.

GNU has an SCCS clone.  A so-so one but James and his crew fixes bugs.
And I suspect that BitSCCS is out there on the intertubes somewhere.
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