Re: What if the author field in a RCS file is a numeral as in 12345

[Aaron S. Hawley]

i can confirm this also:

    $ grep author RCS/food,v
    date    2003.06.13.16.12.59;    author 8675309; state Exp;
    $ rlog RCS/food,v
    rlog: RCS/food,v:9: missing author
    rlog aborted

my guess is the problem is in the lexer, but i'm having trouble
decrypting anything from these sections of the code.
/a

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Arvind Raman wrote:

> I came across this problem a few years agom when I
> tried to fix the problem by myself, but off late I
> have to suspect the fix that I did.
>
> I guess the rlog.c version 5.7 (windows) assumes that
> the author field would be a string and would not be a
> numeral.
>
> In our organization where the login IDs are numbers
> the name of authors in the RCS file figures as a
> numeral. I believe that the rlog executable in release
>
> 5.7 is unable to parse such files for as soon as I add
>
> an alphanumeric character like "a" in front of the
> numeral the rlog parses the file without any error.
>
> Does the restriction of the author name not being a
> numeral there with a reason. If thats the case I
> definitely need to find a work around it. I made the
> following change to the rcssync.c file in the function
> getkeyval(keyword, token, optional) the diff of which
> is listed below
>
> 495,499d494
> <       if (strcmp(keyword,"author") == 0)
> <       {
> <               nexttok = token;
> <       }
>
> Could anyone let me know if this is a valid fix, if
> not could someone point out to resources that could
> help me out.
>
> Thanks and regards
> Arvind

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