Is RCS Y2K compliant?
As the rcsfile(5) man page describes (in RCS 5.7), RCS
handles four digit
years. It is believed to be Y2K compliant. However, because it
is distributed in source form, all users are encouraged to
examine the source to make sure it complies with their needs.
RCS version 5.5 and later stored dates with four digit years,
but recognised 2 digit years in older RCS files. These versions
should be Y2K compliant, but is it suggested that users upgrade
to the latest version.
You can determine the version of RCS with the -V option
to any of the commands:
% rcs -V
RCS version 5.7
If your RCS does not support the -V option, it is
probably too old to be Y2K compliant.
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During the install, I get the following error message
./conf.sh: testing permissions ...
./conf.sh: This command should not be run with superuser permissions.
The RCS configuration and build must be done as a non-root user.
The reason is that some systems do not produce meaningful permission
check results as root. In general UNIX applications should be
configured and built as a non-root user, then installed (if being
installed in a standard system directory) as root.
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Is there an easy way to convert SCCS files to RCS format?
A script was posted years avo to the
comp.sources.misc
newsgroup to do just that. We
have never used it, but others have asked for it and never
reported problems. It is available as a shell archive as orignially posted.
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How do I get rlog to display the correct time?
Rlog is displaying the correct time, but it is
displaying it as GMT, not local time. All times are stored in
the RCS file as GMT. If you want times displayed in the local
time, use the -zLT option, or see rlog(1) for more
details.
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How do I get RCS to work with sshfs?
This workaround was provided by Christian Delfosse.
The problem is that sshfs does not allow renaming an existing
file if the target name exists and is read-only. Enabling
bad_b_rename in the RCS config causes RCS to first unlink
the target, then do the rename.
After running configure and make, manually edit
src/conf.h and change bad_b_rename setting to 1. Then run
make again.
Miklos Szeredi with the sshfs team offered another workaround of
using the -oworkaround=rename sshfs option. He also
reports that this will be fixed in an upcoming release (already
in the CVS respository) if you are using OpenSSH-4.9.
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For more information on RCS, see the Purdue
RCS Homepage