Re: RCS and Binary Files

[Aaron S. Hawley]

Make sure you are using GNU diff utilities, they provide binary file
support for RCS.

http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/

/a

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Kathi Medina wrote:

> I'm working with Kintana, rcs and Oracle forms (Oracle Financial 
> Applications).
>
> Seems I need to specify binary when checking-in or checking-out an Oracle
> form, however, I'm not sure quite how to do this.  Here's the commands I'm
> using for non-binary objects:
>
> archive exists, checkin file for new revision
> ci -m"[SYS.USERNAME]: [P.P_COMMENT]" [P.P_FILENAME]
> $ARCH_DIR/[P.P_FILENAME],v; fi
>
> initial checkin if archive does not exist
> ci -t-"[SYS.USERNAME]: [P.P_COMMENT]" [P.P_FILENAME]
> $ARCH_DIR/[P.P_FILENAME],v; fi
>
> check out read-only file
> co -r[P.P_REVISION_LABEL] $ARCH_DIR/[P.P_FILENAME],v
>
> check out writable version of file
> co -l $ARCH_DIR/[P.P_FILENAME],v
>
> What the heck do I do for binary files?  If I use the above commands, the
> Oracle form gets 'hosed' and I cannot compile it.