Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!ariel.unm.edu!unmvax!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Problem with Amiga RCS Message-ID: Date: 20 Feb 91 12:48:18 GMT References: <1991Feb20.042726.16148@NCoast.ORG> Lines: 33 >In article <1991Feb20.042726.16148@NCoast.ORG> davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright) writes: > > Lately I have been having problems with RCS on my 3000. Up until >2/9/91 it would correctly check in files, but now, whenever I am adding a >revision (not the first revision), it does not save the previous version >correctly (an rlog of the file will give a "no line number specified" message >where it should print the log messages). > I edited the archive file, and at the end I find a bunch of >"Binary file xyz.c and t:,RCS differ" messages where the >edits usually reside. So I tried manually doing a diff on two files that >I know would be different, and are C source code. Sure enough, >"diff file1.c file2.c" generates the "binary file" message, instead of the >changes between the two versions. > I check the executable diff program on the HD against the one on >my floppy, and they are the same, so the executable isn't corrupted. > Wow, this makes me nervous.... with all my source in RCS. I'll look at the diff manual and see if I can't figure out what causes it to complain avout binary files. Is this every source you have tried it on, or just one? > Does anyone know why this would be happening or have any suggestions? > > > > Dave -- ben@epmooch.UUCP ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu {chinet,uokmax}!servalan!epmooch!ben (Ben Mesander) War in gulf: newpath 288 396 216 0 360 arc 288 612 moveto 288 180 lineto 288 396 moveto 136 244 lineto 288 396 moveto 440 244 lineto 36 setlinewidth stroke showpage