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From: bstocker@diana.cair.du.edu (Bob Stocker)
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Subject: Re: Problems withRCS from simtel20.
Keywords: rcs, diff
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Date: 18 Jun 91 01:02:38 GMT
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In article <10632@dnlunx.pttrnl.nl> martien@dnlunx.pttrnl.nl (Martien Kuunders) writes:
>I recently got an RCS version form simtel20 (PD1:msdos.pgmutl/*rcs*), but I'm
>having trouble using it. When I check in a source ci executes diff with a -a
>option. Neither the diff which comes with it nor any other diff I managed to
>find accepts this option.

I use only the dosrcs* files.  I believe that the things in sh_rcs*
require some software that I don't have.  Ci works with
PD1:msdos.gnuish/diff115.zip -- which does support a -a option.  I
think that -a forces diff to treat the files as text.

So far I haven't had any problems with dosrcs as long as I've stuck to
text-only files.  The version that was posted to c.b.i.p. some time ago
quietly choked when I fed it a WordPerfect file: ci looked as if it
worked but co wasn't able to retrieve all of the file.  Since then
I've stuck to plain text files.

Also, I've gotten in the habit of always using the -l option with co.
Vanilla co creates a read-only file that a subsequent "co -l" doesn't
seem to be able to overwrite.

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