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by c0brac0bra 221 days ago
But did you survive rcs?
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Or visual source safe
shudder I had almost forgot.
Worse: PVCS!
and sccs
:raises hand

At my mid 90s Unix shop, everyone had to use someone’s script which in turn called sccs. I don’t recall what it did, but I remember being annoyed that someone’s attempt to save keystrokes meant I had to debug alpha-quality script code before the sccs man page was relevant.

Adding -x to the shebang line was the only way to figure out what was really going on.