Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 11:46:48 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Christopher Heng <cyfheng AT singnet DOT com DOT sg>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: RCS5.7 DOS and binary files
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On Thu, 11 Apr 1996, Christopher Heng wrote:

> >  rcs -i -kb binfile.doc
> >  ci binfile.doc
> >and check it out again
> >  co -l binfile.doc
> >This works fine. But when I make a change and want to update the file ci 
> >returns with
> >  'Unexpected EOF from diff command'
> >The diff command I'm using is the DJGPP v2 diff util (diffutils 2.7) which 
> >should be able to handle binaries...

Can you tell what command-line options get passed to Diff by `ci'?  Diff 
can handle binary files, but it only prints that they are different.  
Diffutils 2.7 don't support creating something like context diffs for 
binary files, AFAIK.  What does RCS expect from Diff in the case of 
binary files?