From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] SVN of CSRG Releases
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 18:37:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150114023752.GC17893@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150114022427.GB24813@eureka.lemis.com>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-14 2:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-14 1:12 Warren Toomey
2015-01-14 1:42 ` Larry McVoy
2015-01-14 1:55 ` Warren Toomey
2015-01-14 2:24 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-01-14 2:37 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2015-01-14 4:41 ` John Cowan
2015-01-14 11:24 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2015-01-14 11:45 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2015-01-14 17:38 ` Jacob Ritorto
2015-01-14 17:52 ` cowan
2015-01-14 18:34 ` Jacob Ritorto
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