RE: jCVS/rcs problem

[Tim Endres <time@ice.com>]

On Tue, Sep 22 1998, Simon Macdonald wrote:
[> Argh,
[> 
[> I forgot to turn compression off when I did the cvslog.txt file for you.
[> Here is the actual problem...
[> 
[> Thanks...

[> [ logging... ]
[> CVSRequest: reading response...
[> CVSClient.READLine: 'E cvs server: Examining Test'
[> CVSClient.READLine: 'E cvs server: Committing Test'
[> CVSClient.READLine: 'E rcs error: Unknown option: -x,v/'

I think your RCS is out of date.

If you were to update to cvs 1.10.1, this problem would disappear,
since the proper RCS is "builtin" to CVS.

The "-x" option is described as:

       -xsuffixes
              specifies the suffixes for RCS files.   A  nonempty
              suffix  matches  any pathname ending in the suffix.
              An empty suffix matches any pathname  of  the  form
              RCS/path  or  path1/RCS/path2.   The  -x option can
              specify a list of suffixes  separated  by  /.   For
              example,  -x,v/  specifies two suffixes: ,v and the
              empty suffix.  If two or more suffixes  are  speci-
              fied,  they  are tried in order when looking for an
              RCS file; the first one that works is used for that
              file.   If no RCS file is found but an RCS file can
              be created, the suffixes  are  tried  in  order  to
              determine the new RCS file's name.  The default for
              suffixes is installation-dependent; normally it  is
              ,v/ for hosts like Unix that permit commas in file-
              names, and is empty (i.e. just  the  empty  suffix)
              for other hosts.

tim.
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