Everhart,Glenn
From:	Arne Vajhxj [ava@cri.dk]
Sent:	Friday, March 27, 1998 3:53 AM
To:	Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject:	RCS 5.7 on VMS
I tried getting out-of-the-box RCS 5.7, DIFFUTILS 2.7 and
PATCH 2.5 to work with the new 7.x C RTL with a minimum
of changes.

And it actually did.

All the changes I made are available at:
  ftp://ftp.hhs.dk/tmp/rcskit.zip

Note:
  - it is only tested with VMS Alpha 7.1 and DEC C 5.6
  - I expect it to work with 7.1 both VAX and Alpha and
    6.2 VAX and Alpha with the backport library installed
    and any DEC C version supporting the new C RTL, but I have
    not tested it
  - there are undobtetly features that does not work (see below)

I have tested:
  rcs -i
  rcs -i -m
  rlog
  ci
  ci -r
  co
  co -l
  co -r
  (diff as used by RCS)
  diff -c (single file)
  patch -i

But all the rest I have not tested. In particulat I have added
some dummy functions VMS.C, so I am certain that something does
not work.

There is no guarantee for anything, but here it is. I hope
that someone will find use for it. If you correct some bugs
(f.ex. replace the dummy functions with actual functions), then
feel free to drop me an email.

The best would ofcourse be if this and some of the stuff from
the complete ports of older versions actually got merged into
the out-of-the-box kits from GNU.

                                                   Arne