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

[Arvind Raman]

Do you see this limitation going out in the later 
versions of RCS, probably as a feature emhancement ?

Arvind
--- Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> "Aaron S. Hawley" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >     $ 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.
> 
> In RCS 5.7, a user name must contain at least one
> non-digit.
> 
> Several other traditional Unix utilities require
> user names to contain
> at least one non-digit, so RCS is in good company
> here.  However, it
> shouldn't be hard (as you observed) to modify it to
> support integer
> user names, at least if you don't care whether your
> RCS files are
> interoperable with anybody else's tools.


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