Re: small bug in lib/cvs/contrib/sccs2rcs script?

[Larry Jones]

Hayes, Ted writes:
> 
> The "Y2K patch" added to the lib/cvs/contrib/sccs2rcs script (sccs2rcs.in in
> 1.11.1p1) doesn't look too convincing - it seems to try to use the "date"
> shell variable before it has been set.  I believe the "sccs prs" command has
> to be run first defaulting the century to (say) 1900 - then the year
> processing can be carried out subsequently.  My adjusted v1.11 sccs2rcs
> contains the commands:

I thought I had already fixed that, but I guess not.  I've just checked
in a much simpler fix (if you're going to use awk, you might as well
*use* it):

        set date = `sccs prs -r$rev $file | awk '/^D / {if (substr($3,0,2)+0 < 
70) print "20" $3, $4; else print "19" $3, $4; exit}'`

-Larry Jones

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