[plug] RCS unix file attributes

James Devenish devenish at guild.uwa.edu.au
Sat Apr 10 18:48:27 WST 2004


In message <20040410184338.779c957f.harrymc at decisions-and-designs.com.au>
on Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 06:43:38PM +0800, Harry wrote:
> I'm stumped trying to remember (or google) the rcs command to make an RCS
> file have Unix EOL. When I
> co -l
> an archived .c file it has CR added to the lines. While I can just
> :1,$s/\r//g
> each time, the proper fix is to give the RCS file attributes so ci and co
> treat it as a unix file.

How about a -k option? I couldn't find one in the RCS docs, but perhaps
there is something analogous to CVS's -ko option (if -ko is indeed the
relevant option).

> If someone can tell me why debian rcs has the MS-DOS file type by default

Huh? What makes you think it /does/ in the first place? (Debian woody's
RCS behaves in the UNIX manner.)





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