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

[Aaron S. Hawley]

IANARM (i'm not a rcs maintainer), but there's probably no reason why this
couldn't get fixed.

are you aware RCS hasn't had a new release in like 8 years?

you're probably best off with your current local build.
/a

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Arvind Raman wrote:

> 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.