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From: davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Problem with Amiga RCS
Keywords: RCS DIFF HELP
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.042726.16148@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 20 Feb 91 04:27:26 GMT
Organization: North Coast Public Access Un*x (ncoast)
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	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<somenumber> 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.

	Does anyone know why this would be happening or have any suggestions?



				Dave