Re: Intermittent Issues with RCS binary co

[Paul Eggert]

"Meinert, Debora L." <address@hidden> writes:

> I would think we are using the GNU diffutils because we downloaded the
> software from the website (www.gnu.org) and renamed the RCS that was bundled
> with the OS.

That doesn't necessarily solve the problem.  Perhaps your RCS is
invoking the non-GNU diff that comes with your system.  That would
explain your problem.

> Can you suggest a way we may narrow our scope?

I'd start by use a system-call tracer like "truss" to make sure that
your copy of RCS is invoking GNU diff, and not some other diff.


> it almost appears as though there are inherent problems when working
> with binary files?

There shouldn't be any problems with binary files, if RCS and diff
are installed properly.