[TUHS] SCCS, TeamWare, BitKeeper, and Git

[Greg A. Woods]

Thank you very much for your reply Marc.

One thing I left unstated in my question, and indeed in my 1988 question
as well, was more or less:  "If vc is just a macro processor, why might
I want to use it instead of any other available macro processor?"

Indeed that was an even more important question back then before there
was an open-source version of SCCS (with vc).  Back in 1988 I only had
access to a public SunOS machine, a public SCO Xenix machine, and
whatever Unix(-like) machines might be available at my current
workplace, and of course not all of them might have had SCCS installed.
As a C programmer I was already familiar with CPP of course, and having
been a Unix user since my earliest university courses I was also
familiar, at least in passing in 1988, with M4.  (One year later I had
my own little AT&T 3B2/400 running UNIX System V with SCCS!)

Having now finally read more about M6 thanks to your link to a copy of
CSTR#2, I see that vc is moderately more like M6 than M4 in its
simplicity, and as such it might be simpler to use in some contexts.

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