RCS issue with Windows username with spaces in it

[Phil Hurrell]

When utilising the pre-compiled RCS for Windows NT (rcs 57 from http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/trinkle/RCS/)

 

There is a problem if your NT Username contains a space

For example my login is “Phil Hurrell” (without the speech marks)

 

When you attempt to check in a file, the RCS command fails as it appears to not recognise username with spaces.

 

$ ci hello.world

hello.world,v  <--  hello.world

ci: invalid identifier `Phil'

ci aborted

 

You can force ci by using –wlogin  option:

            ci -wphil hello.world

hello.world,v  <--  hello.world

enter description, terminated with single '.' or end of file:

NOTE: This is NOT the log message!

>> Hello world

>> .

initial revision: 1.1

done

 

 but this is not a solution as when you come to check out co –l also suffers from same problem

 

co -l hello.world

hello.world,v  -->  hello.world

co: invalid identifier `Phil'

co aborted

 

 

Is there any workaround or planned solution for this?  (I’m in large company and cannot change the login credentials!)

 

Thanks for any help !

Phil Hurrell
Portfolio Manager – Configuration Maintenance & Utopia 
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