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From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
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Subject: Re: patch(1) depends on RCS - should it?
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On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 04:17:03PM -0400, Eitan Adler wrote:
> patch(1) explicitly tries to use RCS (and SCCS) in certain cases.

At the SCCS behavior is part of (the SCCS option in ) POSIX 2008.
So far I haven't seen any reason for messing with it.

Joerg