Greetings, Richard Gribble!
>> > One thing I may have failed to mention is that (anecdotaly - I didn't
>> > take copious notes) the problem usually appeared when I had lines with
>> > two "^M"s at the end. I suspect this happens because sometimes I edit
>> > the files on my Linux box and sometime
Brian Wilson wrote:
> From what I've read in this discussion, I think the issue is that
> the '^M' characters may not be seen by RCS as an EOL.
The problem occurs in a loop that copies one character at a time to
move the entire content of the work file into the new RCS file as the
latest version
> I suspect this happens because sometimes I edit the files on my Linux box and
sometimes on my Windows box.
If I remember correctly, RCS (and the earlier SCCS systems) were designed to
work with source code (i.e. text files). They determined file changes based on
lines added or deletes and ha
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
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> Greetings, Richard Gribble!
>
> > One thing I may have failed to mention is that (anecdotaly - I didn't
> > take copious notes) the problem usually appeared when I had lines with
> > two "^M"s at the end. I suspect this happens because some
Greetings, Richard Gribble!
> One thing I may have failed to mention is that (anecdotaly - I didn't
> take copious notes) the problem usually appeared when I had lines with
> two "^M"s at the end. I suspect this happens because sometimes I edit
> the files on my Linux box and sometimes on my Wind
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:05 AM, Wagemans, Peter wrote:
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>
> Richard Gribble wrote:
>
> > I have experienced this problem several times. In my case it seemed
> > to be a problem between 'Unix' and 'DOS' files. In each case, I
> > have been able to fix it by editing the RCS file using vim and
>
Richard Gribble wrote:
> I have experienced this problem several times. In my case it seemed
> to be a problem between 'Unix' and 'DOS' files. In each case, I
> have been able to fix it by editing the RCS file using vim and
> deleting all the extraneous carriage returns
RCS should be able to h
> I have experienced this problem several times. In my case it seemed
> to be a problem between 'Unix' and 'DOS' files. In each case, I have
> been able to fix it by editing the RCS file using vim and deleting all
> the extraneous carriage returns - :%s/^M$// Sometimes I've had
> to do it twice
I have experienced this problem several times. In my case it seemed
to be a problem between 'Unix' and 'DOS' files. In each case, I have
been able to fix it by editing the RCS file using vim and deleting all
the extraneous carriage returns - :%s/^M$// Sometimes I've had
to do it twice. Once I d
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