davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright) (02/20/91)
Lately I have been having problems with RCS on my 3000. Up until 2/9/91 it would correctly check in files, but now, whenever I am adding a revision (not the first revision), it does not save the previous version correctly (an rlog of the file will give a "no line number specified" message where it should print the log messages). I edited the archive file, and at the end I find a bunch of "Binary file xyz.c and t:,RCS<somenumber> differ" messages where the edits usually reside. So I tried manually doing a diff on two files that I know would be different, and are C source code. Sure enough, "diff file1.c file2.c" generates the "binary file" message, instead of the changes between the two versions. I check the executable diff program on the HD against the one on my floppy, and they are the same, so the executable isn't corrupted. Does anyone know why this would be happening or have any suggestions? Dave
ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) (02/20/91)
>In article <1991Feb20.042726.16148@NCoast.ORG> davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright) writes: > > Lately I have been having problems with RCS on my 3000. Up until >2/9/91 it would correctly check in files, but now, whenever I am adding a >revision (not the first revision), it does not save the previous version >correctly (an rlog of the file will give a "no line number specified" message >where it should print the log messages). > I edited the archive file, and at the end I find a bunch of >"Binary file xyz.c and t:,RCS<somenumber> differ" messages where the >edits usually reside. So I tried manually doing a diff on two files that >I know would be different, and are C source code. Sure enough, >"diff file1.c file2.c" generates the "binary file" message, instead of the >changes between the two versions. > I check the executable diff program on the HD against the one on >my floppy, and they are the same, so the executable isn't corrupted. > Wow, this makes me nervous.... with all my source in RCS. I'll look at the diff manual and see if I can't figure out what causes it to complain avout binary files. Is this every source you have tried it on, or just one? > Does anyone know why this would be happening or have any suggestions? > > > > Dave -- ben@epmooch.UUCP ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu {chinet,uokmax}!servalan!epmooch!ben (Ben Mesander) War in gulf: newpath 288 396 216 0 360 arc 288 612 moveto 288 180 lineto 288 396 moveto 136 244 lineto 288 396 moveto 440 244 lineto 36 setlinewidth stroke showpage