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From: sth AT hacon DOT de (Stefan Hornburg)
Subject: Re: B19 and NTemacs
18 Mar 1998 05:02:45 -0800 :
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Erwin Achermann <acherman AT inf DOT ethz DOT ch> writes:

> This is really disquieting. vc.el worked like a charm on 19.36.6 and B18
> but after upgrading to B19, it sometimes fails to check a new version
> in, with no warning what so ever. But upon co it howls "unexpected end
> of file RCS/calc.y,v  co aborted" leaving me with a small portion of my
> calc.y file.... 
> What makes me really wonder is the fact that this is totally
> reproducible on some files only...
> Next when i try to co an old version trough emacs, it complains:" $1\":
> -c: line 3: syntax error: unexpected end of file"
> 

We had here a problem with B18 diff and non-GnuWin32 RCS tools. With
large files corruption of the RCS files occurs.

Ciao	Stefan
-- 
MKDIR pipe on netware with Windows* makes you wonder :-)

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