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Re: Trouble with RCS 5.7


From: Owen Brydon
Subject: Re: Trouble with RCS 5.7
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 18:13:30 +0000

Keith Hays wrote:
> 
> Hello,
>  I was hoping that you would be able to help me with a problem I'm having
> with RCS 5.7 and binary files.
> 
> The problem is that RCS is not storing the previous revisions of the
> binary files as I was lead to believe it should. 

RCS is not for use with binary files: 

>From the manpage 'rcsintro':

 WARNINGS
      ...

      RCS is designed to be used with TEXT files only.  Attempting to
use
      RCS with non-text (binary) files will result in data corruption.

Regards,

Owen Brydon



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