binary files

[Nick DiToro]

Hi,
This is what I do for the NT version of GNU RCS. To check in a binary file, you have to do the following:
1) Initialize the archive file by typing rcs -i -kb filename
2) Check in the file by typing ci -u filename
3) You can then use RCS commands normally.
See the help for co -kb for more info.

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Owen Brydon [mailto:address@hidden]
Sent:   Thursday, November 23, 2000 4:29 AM
To:     address@hidden
Subject:        Re: Trouble with RCS 5.7

address@hidden wrote:
>
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>
> Thank you for the fast response. However, I can not find the text
> described below in the rcsintro(1) man page. Are you certain that the
> reference is from RCS 5.7?
>
> Also, the ci(1) man page and the O'Reilly book 'RCS and SCCS' both refer
> to working with binary files.
>
> Regards,
> Keith hays
>

Apologies - this is from the HP-UX rcs man page, which is not gnu-rcs,
which is of course what we are meant to be discussing here :)

Regards,

Owen

> On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Owen Brydon wrote:
>
> > Owen Brydon wrote:
> >
> > RCS is not for use with binary files:
> >
> > >From the manpage 'rcsintro':
> >
> >  WARNINGS
> >       ...
> >
> >       RCS is designed to be used with TEXT files only.  Attempting to use
> >       RCS with non-text (binary) files will result in data corruption.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Owen Brydon
> >

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Owen Brydon

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