Re: Emacs and RCS (was Re: GUI front-end for RCS)

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From: James Youngman
Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 00:00

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In article <kdozhgaa@snowgold.demon.co.uk>, sdouglas@snowgold.demon.co.uk 
says...

>You can get RCS for NT - I use it all the time and it works a treat. 
>The latest version handles long filenames (the earlier version seemed 
>to have a maximum of 9.4). Not sure if the RCS files will be compatible 
>between Linux and NT but since they are just text files they should be 
>OK.

IIRC, RCS is fine for cross-platform use except in the case of binary files, 
which it handles slightly differently.  This may be an endiannes issue or 
something, I forget.  Anyway, this means that almost all RCS controlled files 
are "portable".

-- 
James Youngman       VG Gas Analysis Systems  The trouble with the rat-race 
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From: JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman)
Subject: Re: Emacs and RCS (was Re: GUI front-end for RCS)
Date: 1997/05/07
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