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Re: Trouble with RCS 5.7
From: |
Owen Brydon |
Subject: |
Re: Trouble with RCS 5.7 |
Date: |
Thu, 23 Nov 2000 09:29:05 +0000 |
address@hidden wrote:
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> Thank you for the fast response. However, I can not find the text
> described below in the rcsintro(1) man page. Are you certain that the
> reference is from RCS 5.7?
>
> Also, the ci(1) man page and the O'Reilly book 'RCS and SCCS' both refer
> to working with binary files.
>
> Regards,
> Keith hays
>
Apologies - this is from the HP-UX rcs man page, which is not gnu-rcs,
which is of course what we are meant to be discussing here :)
Regards,
Owen
> On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Owen Brydon wrote:
>
> > Owen Brydon wrote:
> >
> > 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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Owen Brydon