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- Path: sparky!uunet!auspex-gw!guy
- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: SCCS and binary files
- Keywords: SCCS
- Message-ID: <15943@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 00:14:03 GMT
- References: <BzC2EG.Bq1@me.utoronto.ca> <1992Dec16.082518.4578@ericsson.se>
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- >That is files containing that have other than printable and whitespace
- >characters or are missing a terminating newline are encoded (I believe
- >uuencoded).
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- Yes, they're uuencoded.
-
- Be aware that this is a Sunism (stuck in, as I remember, to allow binary
- font files to be included in the SCCS tree for SunOS releases), and that
- other UNIX systems' SCCS may not support it.
-