Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/04/15/20:28:20
> Sorry to trouble you, but I have downloaded rcsdos5.7 and set it up on my
> computer. I have already installed djgpp2.0. I cannot work out how to put
> binary files under rcs, when I try any binary file it gets shortened
> dramatically in the rcs subdirectory. Everything seems to work OK for text
> formatted files.
>
> I have read the documentation, I downloaded the latest gnu rcs to get the man
> pages but I can't find any switch or whatever to get rcs to recognise binary
> files. Could you please tell me what I am doing wrong?
No trouble.
I have tested support for binary files and have found it to work
properly for me. So, I suspect that I should give an example.
I created a subdirectory called TEST and another subdirectory within
it called RCS. I copied COMMAND.COM to the TEST directory. I ran the
rcs command to create the empty logfile.
rcs -i -kb command.com
Which creates an empty logfile for the COMMAND.COM file where keywords
will not be substituted and the CR-LF conversion is avoided. I check
the file in.
ci command.com
And it disappears from the TEST directory. I check it out.
co command.com
And it reappears. A binary comparison shows that the files are
identitical.
Does this help?
Marc Singer
elf AT netcom DOT com
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