Re: RCS issue with Windows username with spaces in it

[Aaron S. Hawley]

There's a -w command-line option for the `ci` command  that allows you
to "lie" about the value for author.

See the man page for more information

http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/rcs/ci.1.html

2008/4/14 Phil Hurrell <address@hidden>:
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> When utilising the pre-compiled RCS for Windows NT (rcs 57 from
> http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/trinkle/RCS/)
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> There is a problem if your NT Username contains a space
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> For example my login is "Phil Hurrell" (without the speech marks)
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> When you attempt to check in a file, the RCS command fails as it appears to
> not recognise username with spaces.
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> $ ci hello.world
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> hello.world,v  <--  hello.world
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> ci: invalid identifier `Phil'
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> ci aborted
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> You can force ci by using –wlogin  option:
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>             ci -wphil hello.world
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> hello.world,v  <--  hello.world
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> enter description, terminated with single '.' or end of file:
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> NOTE: This is NOT the log message!
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> >> Hello world
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> >> .
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> initial revision: 1.1
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> done
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>  but this is not a solution as when you come to check out co –l also suffers
> from same problem
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> co -l hello.world
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> hello.world,v  -->  hello.world
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> co: invalid identifier `Phil'
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> co aborted
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> Is there any workaround or planned solution for this?  (I'm in large company
> and cannot change the login credentials!)
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> Thanks for any help !
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> Phil Hurrell
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>  Configuration Management
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