Re: [Bug-cssc] bug-CSSC post from address@hidden requires approval

[James Youngman]

On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Joerg Schilling
<address@hidden> wrote:
> James Youngman <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Joerg Schilling
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > James Youngman <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >> - I believe some (quite old) implementations lack prt
>> >
>> > prt was part of sccs since the beginning. Some vendor variants (e.g. IBM, 
>> > SGI,
>> > HP) do not include it - maybe because it is not mentioned by POSIX and 
>> > because
>> > there is prs.
>>
>> My apologies.   I meant prs, which was written by Charlie Salemi in
>> response to a stream of requests to modify the output of prt.
>
> I am not sure what you are talking about, both programs have been present in
> 1980 already.

Sure.   I have no idea when he wrote it, though he might be able to
tell us.   I'd have no doubt it was before 1980.

> BTW: your test suite works well and did help me to find problems when porting
> to strange platforms, but I had to add several fixes to make it work 
> completely.

There are recent changes to the test suite.   Check the git sources.

James.