From: elf AT netcom DOT com (Marc Singer)
Message-Id: <199604160033.RAA03690@netcom22.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: RCS5.7 DOS and binary files
To: jjk AT lbvrtda DOT logica DOT com (JJ Keijser)
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 17:33:12 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (DJGPP List Alias)
In-Reply-To: <4kdm79$i7e@romeo.logica.co.uk> from "JJ Keijser" at Apr 9, 96 01:46:38 pm
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> just downloaded RCS 5.7 for DJGPP v2 and installed it. It works beautifully 
> for text files but not for binary files (which the Unix version can handle). I 
> can check in a binary file using
>   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...

Uh oh.  I see the problem, now.  I'll look into this and get back to you.

Marc