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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: /usr/bin/sccs  -- why is is there?
Message-ID: <DqBJzE.C84@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
References: <01bb2c7b.a2029b60$04a39384@xenon.vggas.com> <4l6dtq$1oj@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 14:23:37 GMT
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In article <4l6dtq$1oj@uriah.heep.sax.de> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) writes:
>I seem to remember that there used to be a SCCS dummy in FreeBSD
>1.1.5.1.  I forgot about its purpose, however.

There used to be one in 4.1 and/or 4.2 even if you didn't have SCCS
installed, so it's probably just historical.

-- Richard
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