Re: corruption upon checkin?

[Paul Eggert]

"Chris Moore" <address@hidden> writes:

> Running 'rcs -V' on the binary I downloaded from the Official RCS
> Homepage <http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/trinkle/RCS/rcs57pc1.zip> (and
> parts 2 and 3) gives me an rcs.exe which claims to be just
> "RCS version 5.7", ie. no patch level is specified.  Am I to take it
> that it's not patched?

That's what I would guess, yes.

> My problem now is that RCS won't recognise RCS\file,v or .\file,v as
> being file's 'comma v' file.  The only place it seems to want to look is
> in RCS\file - ie. the 'comma v' file isn't allowed to have a name that
> ends with ',v'.  Can I get it to recognise ,v files again?  I guess the
> version which I'm using now doesn't trust Windows to use long file
> names, but I would like it to.

You should be able to get the source code to the version that you have
now, and fix it.  Sorry, the RCS maintainers (such as they are) don't
really do Windows; you'll have to talk to whoever did your Windows port.