On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 2:10 PM Dan Cross wrote: > > I had heard a story once, that based on what you wrote today, I now > think is apocryphal and never actually happened. > > The story was that there was a bug in early SCCS where a source file > had to be checked in twice before it could be (successfully) checked > out. The bug was such that if one only checked it in once and tried to > check it out, it would truncate the file. "Programmers using it just > learned to check in twice." > > I never used SCCS extensively, and certainly never observed that > behavior, so chucked it up to the bug having been long fixed. As I > mentioned above, I doubt it was ever there to begin with. A fun story, > though. > > - Dan C. > This is completely ridiculous. No program I wrote ever had one of those bug things. Marc