Re: Virus Scanning & RCS

[Aaron S. Hawley]

IANAVE (I am not a virus expert), you should be able to just scan the rcs
file and find most all viruses, RCS stores literal strings of the stored
files.

i'd suggest to users (if they're not already)  keep the most recent
working version of the file (unlocked or locked) and thus making the whole
file available for the virus scanner.

hope that helps.  i had missed your message because the Virus Scanning
subject looked like spam.
/a

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, address@hidden wrote:

> A number of our engineers use RCS to store documentation (MS Word and
> Excel files).  Since these types of files are susceptible to viruses,
> we'd like to scan the content of their RCS repository to ensure it does
> not contain any infected files.
>
> Does anyone have any guidance on how this should be done?  Can we just
> scan the RCS repository as if it's a just a regular directory tree?