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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Perl file extension
Message-ID: <1991May31.182505.29182@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 31 May 91 18:25:05 GMT
References: <PRZEMEK.91May29115226@rrdstrad.nist.gov> <GLENN.91May29192309@huxley.huxley.bitstream.com>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <GLENN.91May29192309@huxley.huxley.bitstream.com> <glenn@bitstream.com> (Glenn Parker) writes:
: In article <PRZEMEK.91May29115226@rrdstrad.nist.gov> przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov (Przemek Klosowski) writes:
: >  I noticed that RCS treats files with extension ".pl" as Prolog files;
: > as a result it inserts $Log$ entries prefixed with % instead of # as the
: > comment char.
: 
: rcs -c"# " foo.pl

I wish someone would fix RCS.  All it needs to do is look and see what the
current comment character is on $Log$ and use that.  This business of
guessing from the extension is, by definition, non-extensible.  Blech.

Larry