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From: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: RCS and SCO Xenix
Keywords: RCS, Xenix, diff
Message-ID: <12999@bigtex.cactus.org>
Date: 21 Jan 89 05:22:07 GMT
References: <1742@holos0.UUCP>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: Institute of Applied Cosmology, Austin TX
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In <1742@holos0.UUCP>, fsg@holos0.UUCP (Frank Glass) wrote:
> [...] I recently acquired RCS sources from one of the archive sites,
> and compiled it successfuly, but it still seems to have a problem with
> the diff on this machine.

Get GNU diff (latest release was 10/26 I think).  It supports the
options that RCS wants and works just fine.  Also does those nifty
context diffs, and runs substantially quicker than the AT&T diff (this
may be because I compiled GNU diff with GNU C instead of PCC).  I
recall having some trouble getting GNU diff3 and rcsmerge to work
together, but this isn't a serious problem and can probably be solved
with a little effort.

Warning: when installing RCS, be certain to *test* it before
entrusting your sources to it.  Check in a file, modify it, check in
the new version, and make sure you can still get the original.  If
your diff fails, you might not get any errors until you tried to
retrieve the original file...
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