From: byer@chef.ourservers.net
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 12:34 PM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: ANNOUNCING: Patch file for CVS v1.11 for OpenVMS.


After finding an older version of CVS on the OpenFreeware CD I wondered if
there was a newer version of CVS out that would work under OpenVMS.

After checking...

	ftp://ftp.cyclic.com/pub

I saw that CVS v1.11 was availalbe and it appeared to have OpenVMS support.

After I unpacked the package I noticed that the OpenVMS files hadn't been
updated in quite a few versions and it wouldn't compile correctly under DEC
C v6.0 under OpenVMS v7.2

After spending a day with it I created a new compile scrip and patched a few
things and it appears to be working.

So I've put together a patch kit for CVS v1.11 so you can compile it and run
it on under DEC C and OpenVMS.

I didnt' really touch any of the code, which DOES need to be cleaned up and
updated as I just wanted to get the stock kit going.

You can find my patch at.

	http://www.ourservers.net/public/vms/programming/vms_cvs-1_11.zip

And you will need the CVS v1.11 source from..

	ftp://ftp.cyclic.com/pub

Curently, its just a client and it does login to a server and will checkout
files, but it dosen't convert file names like "config.h.in" and won't download
them and will bomb on directories like ".test"

I haven't tested out all the functions so I'm not sure what is and isn't
working and you WILL get some link warnings about some functions missing, which
I couldn't find so I'm not sure what's up with that, but it runs anyway.

I'm hoping that someone will clean this up and patch a few things as CVS
for OpenVMS that can handle Unix file names has been needed for a while
and would help people port Unix code over to OpenVMS.

So, here it is for all it's worth.  If you have any questions, feel free
to ask and I'll see what I can do.

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