Re: Difficulties in continuing support for Cygwin

2019-05-31 Thread James Youngman
Start by running bootstrap On Fri 31 May 2019, 23:11 John Cowan, wrote: > > > On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 5:19 PM James Youngman wrote: > >> It's a long time since I have had access to a system capable of >> running Cygwin, and it looks to me as if the code now in t

Difficulties in continuing support for Cygwin

2019-05-31 Thread James Youngman
It's a long time since I have had access to a system capable of running Cygwin, and it looks to me as if the code now in the Git repository for CSSC will no longer compile under Cygwin. The Cygwin code needs to be different because, among other things, under Cygwin one cannot rename an open file,

Announcing the release of GNU CSSC 1.4.1

2019-05-07 Thread James Youngman
development of CSSC :- James Youngman, Ross Ridge, Eric Allman, Lars Hecking, Larry McVoy, Dave Bodenstab, Malcolm Boff, Richard Polton, Fila Kolodny, Peter Kjellerstedt, John Interrante, Marko Rauhamaa, Achim Hoffann, Dick Streefland, Greg A. Woods, Aron Griffis, Michael Sterrett, William W. Austi

Re: cssc-users Digest, Vol 34, Issue 3

2019-05-06 Thread James Youngman
On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 1:05 PM Joerg Schilling wrote: > Check the SCCS project at: http://sccs.sourceforge.net/ and look at the man > pages, e.g.: > > http://sccs.sourceforge.net/man/sccs-admin.1.html Thanks. That explanation in that manual page is quite telegraphic, leaving several th

CSSC needs a new maintainer (was: Re: cssc-users Digest, Vol 34, Issue 3)

2019-05-05 Thread James Youngman
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:29 AM Joerg Schilling wrote: > It seems that CSSC did not introduce many changes during the past years. True then, and true now. I have made no changes at all to CSSC in the past several years. This is partly because the flow of bug reports is so slow, and the em

Re: cssc-users Digest, Vol 34, Issue 3

2019-05-05 Thread James Youngman
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:29 AM Joerg Schilling wrote: > CSSC even refuses the "s" flag that has been introduced by Sun ~ 30 years > ago and writes a message: Corrupted SCCS file. (Unknown flag 's'.) instead of > getting a version. The s flag is important if you need some printf() format > string

Announcing the release of GNU CSSC 1.4.0

2014-07-11 Thread James Youngman
CSSC. This is http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cssc. For more information about CSSC, please see http://www.gnu.org/software/cssc/. In the file docs/CREDITS within the CSSC distribution, there is a full list of people who have contributed to the development of CSSC. They are listed br

GNU CSSC 1.3.2 is released

2014-06-30 Thread James Youngman
org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cssc. For more information about CSSC, please see http://www.gnu.org/software/cssc/. In the file docs/CREDITS within the CSSC distribution, there is a full list of people who have contributed to the development of CSSC. They are listed briefly here :- James Youngman, Ros

Re: [Bug-cssc] Bugs in Sun prt.c copied by CSSC

2011-05-23 Thread James Youngman
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Hi, > > The prt program has two problems when falled wit -f: > > 1)      In case of the 'e' flag, it does not print a needed >        newline. This is a result of missunderstanding >        the source: all other flags print the newline from

Re: CSSC test binary/auto.sh:fa11

2011-05-22 Thread James Youngman
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:50 AM, Larry McVoy wrote: >> At the time the test was written, I had not seen any version of SCCS >> which supported binary files and actually turned on encoding for this >> case. > > I believe that binary support a la uuencode was something that Sun did > but I might be

CSSC test binary/auto.sh:fa11

2011-05-22 Thread James Youngman
(Changing subject to reflect the current discussion) On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > I have no idea what you like to test here, this is why I asked you. > > I am not sure what you are replying to as you reply to a mail with the > subject: > "Test binary/auto.sh fa11

Re: [Bug-cssc] Test delta/errorcase.sh -> E30 .. E32

2011-05-22 Thread James Youngman
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 2:56 PM, James Youngman wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Joerg Schilling >> Then I don't understand the purpose of you test as it seems to verify that >> there is no such automatic switch to binary mode. > > That is not what th

Re: [Bug-cssc] Test delta/errorcase.sh -> E30 .. E32

2011-05-22 Thread James Youngman
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > James Youngman wrote: > > >> > I am sure that you know that the existence of --something in many GNU >> > tools did >> > already result in many non-portable scripts and there is no man page that

Re: [Bug-cssc] Test delta/errorcase.sh -> E30 .. E32

2011-05-21 Thread James Youngman
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Well, the related code is only in the -i code path. The behavior thus seems to > be indented this way by Sun. > > ==>     I however could be convinced to permit admin -b -n Thanks. >> >        admin/r-option.sh. >> >        docommand t5 "

Re: [Bug-cssc] Test delta/errorcase.sh -> E30 .. E32

2011-05-21 Thread James Youngman
[CC += cssc-users] On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > James Youngman wrote: > >> > why do you expect that it makes sense that a file with >> > no new line at the end should be "delta"d wihout error? >> >> It's a prop

GNU CSSC 1.3.1 is released

2011-05-10 Thread James Youngman
ists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cssc. For more information about CSSC, please see http://www.gnu.org/software/cssc/. In the file docs/CREDITS within the CSSC distribution, there is a full list of people who have contributed to the development of CSSC. They are listed briefly here :- James Youngm

GNU CSSC 1.3.0 is released

2010-11-07 Thread James Youngman
t of people who have contributed to the development of CSSC. They are listed briefly here :- James Youngman, Ross Ridge, Eric Allman, Lars Hecking, Larry McVoy, Dave Bodenstab, Malcolm Boff, Richard Polton, Fila Kolodny, Peter Kjellerstedt, John Interrante, Marko Rauhamaa, Achim Hoffann, Dick Stree

Announcing the release of GNU CSSC version 1.3.0rc1

2010-05-16 Thread James Youngman
please see http://www.gnu.org/software/cssc/. In the file docs/CREDITS within the CSSC distribution, there is a full list of people who have contributed to the development of CSSC. They are listed briefly here :- James Youngman, Ross Ridge, Eric Allman, Lars Hecking, Larry McVoy, Dave Bodenstab, Malc

Recent changes to CSSC

2010-04-22 Thread James Youngman
sc.git/log/?showmsg=1): $ git shortlog -n32 James Youngman (32): Remove docs/texinfo.tex from version control; allow Automake to use its own copy Prepare for release of version 1.2.0. Move on from 1.2.0. Remove RCS keywords. Assume exception support. Assume support f

Re: Migrating CSSC's source repository to git

2010-04-18 Thread James Youngman
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 8:02 PM, James Youngman wrote: > CSSC's source repository is currently stored in CVS.   I'm planning to > migrate that to git. > > This means that the CVS repository will at some point become read-only > and I'll publish the location of the gi

Migrating CSSC's source repository to git

2010-04-11 Thread James Youngman
CSSC's source repository is currently stored in CVS. I'm planning to migrate that to git. This means that the CVS repository will at some point become read-only and I'll publish the location of the git repository (it will still be on the GNU project's Savannah site). Thanks, James. __

Re: does keyword expansion work?

2009-09-10 Thread James Youngman
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Christopher Chen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using CSSC-1.2.0.  The keyword expansion feature (ex. %W%) does > not seem to be working.  Does it work? It does: $ rm -f s.foo foo; echo "Hello. %W%." > foo ; ./admin -i s.foo < foo ; ./get -p s.foo 2>/dev/null; rm -f s.f

Would you like to help maintain CSSC?

2009-07-11 Thread James Youngman
I still make occasional releases of CSSC but the reality is that I also have other commitments (notably findutils) and I'm putting less energy into CSSC these days. This is also partly because I no longer use SCCS source archives in my day job any more (this is something of an excuse since I stop

Re: prs "issue", etc

2009-04-14 Thread James Youngman
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Geoff Hull wrote: > Hi. > 1. The main "issue" we have since switching to CSSC is the output when we do > a "prs -l" on a file with Auto Null Deltas. (All our files have this > switched on.) I have attached an example file. I have downloaded CSSC > version 1.2.0 an

GNU CSSC 1.2.0 is released

2009-04-11 Thread James Youngman
tware/cssc/. In the file docs/CREDITS within the CSSC distribution, there is a full list of people who have contributed to the development of CSSC.  They are listed briefly here :- James Youngman, Ross Ridge, Eric Allman, Lars Hecking, Larry McVoy, Dave Bodenstab, Malcolm Boff, Richard Polton,

Re: CSSC 1.1.1 is released

2008-01-21 Thread James Youngman
On Jan 18, 2008 10:21 AM, James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm pleased to announce the release of GNU CSSC, version > 1.1.1. > > This is a test release and so it is available from > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/cssc. There was a certain amount of delay in the a

CSSC 1.1.1 is released

2008-01-18 Thread James Youngman
For more information about CSSC, please see http://www.gnu.org/software/cssc/. In the file docs/CREDITS within the CSSC distribution, there is a full list of people who have contributed to the development of CSSC. They are listed briefly here :- James Youngman, Ross Ridge, Eric Allman, Lars

Re: Implementing "get -l" (was: Re: CSSC)

2008-01-07 Thread James Youngman
On Jan 7, 2008 5:12 PM, Klaus Metzger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello James, > > enclosed answers to your question 1 to 4 and 6,7 and the additional from > your next email > > A. The command > >get -l SCCS/s.P26J01.input > delivers the l.P26J01.input > > B. The command > >get -l SCCS/s

Re: Implementing "get -l" (was: Re: CSSC)

2008-01-06 Thread James Youngman
On Jan 5, 2008 8:02 PM, James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In pursuit of which, I have some questions. Could you address these > in your specification? I have checked a preliminary implementation into CVS. See http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=cssc for information on

Re: Implementing "get -l" (was: Re: CSSC)

2008-01-05 Thread James Youngman
Another question: if more than one file is gotten, what does "get -L" do? Does the format change? ___ cssc-users mailing list cssc-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/cssc-users

Re: Implementing "get -l" (was: Re: CSSC)

2008-01-05 Thread James Youngman
On Jan 5, 2008 7:01 PM, James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm copying my email to the bug-cssc mailing list; please copy the > mailing list when replying, since other members of the list may also > be able to help. In pursuit of which, I have some questions. Could

Implementing "get -l" (was: Re: CSSC)

2008-01-05 Thread James Youngman
I'm copying my email to the bug-cssc mailing list; please copy the mailing list when replying, since other members of the list may also be able to help. On Jan 5, 2008 4:43 PM, Klaus Metzger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Youngman schrieb: > > > On Dec 15, 2007 2:46 PM

Question about ancient releases of CSSC

2007-12-22 Thread James Youngman
Does anybody have a historical copy of any of the following releases of CSSC? I don't have a copy of the release file, and nor does SourceForge. I'm currently assuming that they were release candidates that I decided not to release, but I'd like to be sure. CSSC-0.06alpha-pl8 CSSC-0.04alpha-

Re: Moving to CSSC

2007-12-18 Thread James Youngman
On Dec 18, 2007 10:37 PM, Geoff Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I probably won't get back to this until 3 weeks hence, unfortunately. But > will definitely will > follow it up. I understand. Should you wish to add a bug at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=cssc to act as a place

Re: Announcing the release of CSSC version 1.1.0

2007-12-18 Thread James Youngman
On Dec 17, 2007 11:45 PM, James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please report any bugs via this software to the CSSC bug reporting > page, http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=findutils Sorry. That URL should be https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=

Announcing the release of CSSC version 1.1.0

2007-12-17 Thread James Youngman
ho have contributed to the development of CSSC. They are listed briefly here :- James Youngman, Ross Ridge, Eric Allman, Lars Hecking, Larry McVoy, Dave Bodenstab, Malcolm Boff, Richard Polton, Fila Kolodny, Peter Kjellerstedt, John Interrante, Marko Rauhamaa, Achim Hoffann, Dick Streefland, G

Migrating from SCCS (to GIT)

2007-12-16 Thread James Youngman
On Dec 16, 2007 10:05 PM, Geoff Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just another note - I note that there is a "to do" to rewrite the sccs2rcs > script. An IBM > employee - Jonathon Leffler - has already done this, and included it in his > "sccstools" > package. Interesting, I will try to find ti

Re: Moving to CSSC

2007-12-16 Thread James Youngman
On Dec 16, 2007 10:05 PM, Geoff Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And you did a very good job of it, I must say! Thanks. > > Watch out for automatic OS upgrades :) > > We only use CSSC on Linux and it doesn't come with SCCS (obviously), so it > would only > happen when we upgraded CSSC. Yes, bu

Re: Moving to CSSC

2007-12-16 Thread James Youngman
On Dec 16, 2007 10:05 PM, Geoff Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That was a speedy response! > > I have included some attached files with are the IP of the company I work for. > > I'll send a copy without the files to the mailing list separately. Can you > please treat these > files as confidenti

The CVS repository for GNU CSSC has moved

2007-12-16 Thread James Youngman
I have moved the CVS repository for GNU CVS from Sourceforge to the GNU Project's own Savannah site. Please see http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=cssc for details of how to use the new CVS repository. The old repository still exists for now, but contains just a pointer to the new one. Thanks,

Re: Moving to CSSC

2007-12-13 Thread James Youngman
On Dec 13, 2007 9:27 PM, Geoff Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Greetings all! > > > We are a COBOL software development company (now moving to Java) and we > moved to using a Red Hat Enterprise Linux server as our main machine at the > beginning of this year. We did some trials before movin

Migrating CSSC to GNU Savannah

2007-06-26 Thread James Youngman
I plan to migrate the SourceForge project resources for CSSC (the bug tracker and web pages particularly) to the GNU site, http://savannah.gnu.org/. Does anybody have any comments or objections? James. ___ cssc-users mailing list cssc-users@gnu.org h

Proposal: move CSSC development from SourceForge to GNU project's Savannah site

2007-03-23 Thread James Youngman
I propose to move development of GNU CSSC from Sourceforge to the GNU project's own website, Savannah. This also features a bug tracker, mailing lists, CVS browse access, and so forth. Savannah is at http://savannah.gnu.org/ Any objections? James. __

Google's Summer of Code 2007 programme is under way

2007-03-04 Thread James Youngman
The GNU project is participating in Google's Summer of Code programme in 2007. We also participated in 2006. The page at http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas.html contains a couple of suggestions for Summer of Code projects which relate to CSSC. If you have suggestions for other CSSC

Re: CSSC

2007-02-22 Thread James Youngman
On 2/5/07, butch2005 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Message body follows: Hi, I'm using, or better I'm migrating from TruUnix64-SCCS to CSSC (compiled on a Ubuntu system). Up to now it works good and I'm happy with it. One command I would need is the "get -l" commnd. This option is not implemented

Re: get with -c options doesn't produce correct output

2006-09-15 Thread James Youngman
On 9/14/06, Peter Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I've been using cssc for a couple months now and am quite happy. However, I believe I found a case where cssc produces incorrect output. You mean, the gotten file has the right contents (same as the file that was checked in as 1.1) b

Re: Using CSSC to convert from SCCS to CVS

2006-09-06 Thread James Youngman
On 9/6/06, nestor spedalieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: sccs2rcs seems to be planned to be executed in each folder you want to convert ( at least thats what I understand) but my repository is a big tree with s.* files in some of the leaves (not in everyone of them) and the the leaves can be as f

CSSC projects for the Google Summer of Code

2006-04-30 Thread James Youngman
The GNU Project is participating int he Google Summer of Code. I have added a couple of suggested projects to the suggestions page (it'll take an hour or two for the updates to be pushed to the webservers). See http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/guidelines.html for more information. If y

Suggestions for CSSC student projects in Google Summer of Code?

2006-04-17 Thread James Youngman
The GNU Project is participating in the Google Sumer of Code intiiative. See http://code.google.com/soc/ for more details, if you are not already familiar with it. One obvious task that's probably of the right length would be to properly implement ignored and excluded deltas. Does anyone have an

Re: minor typo in CSSC doc

2005-12-03 Thread James Youngman
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:39:24AM -0800, Alex Brincko wrote: > I believe the first word should be "It" rather than "If." Thanks, I've now fixed this in the development code. James. ___ cssc-users mailing list cssc-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org

Re: sccsdiff of currently edited file

2005-08-27 Thread James Youngman
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 04:12:26PM +0100, Ivan Novick wrote: > sccs diffs hello.cc is what I usually do on Sun machines with SCCS > installed. The same thing works with GNU CSSC:- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/source/GNU/CSSC/sourceforge/compile$ ls -ld SCCS/* foo -rw-r--r-- 1 james users 12 2005-08-2

Temporarily-unresponsive maintainer

2005-06-21 Thread James Youngman
I'm going to California tomorrow and will be back on Monday. In the meantime I won't have regular access to email and the web, and also will not be able to make releases of findutils or CSSC. The PGP key which is necessary for making releases is not coming with me, and I'm not taking a laptop. R

[rbrown@bravurasolutions.com.au: CSSC success on Darwin after patch]

2005-06-18 Thread James Youngman
Apparently this patch is necessary for compilation on Darwin. --- Begin Message --- Title: CSSC success on Darwin after patch Built on a Mac xserve, build problems with filelock.h and quit.h which depend on the configury include, but the #pragma implementation includes are before the config.h