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by m463 557 days ago
I remember moving some code stored in SCCS from unix to a (microsoft) xenix machine. But the compilation broke and I had to track down what was going wrong.

I finally found out the probelem, which was part sccs and part xenix.

xenix had shorter filenames, so while checking filename.c into SCCS gave s.filename.c, checking longfilename.c into sccs gave s.longfilename and checking it out lost the .c extension and make wouldn't compile it.