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Comments: In-reply-to Keith Christian <keith1christian@gmail.com>   message dated "Wed, 16 Apr 2014 16:20:11 -0600."
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 17:53:17 -0400
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In message <CAFWoy7HdXgKXnPKNTsEUo38ttbj=fCR4kRRoLnSyxdvFuoffTA@mail.gmail.com>
you write:
>RCS does a great job for smaller projects when I don't need the
>overhead of any of the popular larger systems.  It has saved me many
>times when I'm working on a short document or a set of scripts on my
>desktop machine.
>
>I'd miss it if it were removed simply due to the lack of handling
>10Meg of diffs or similar.  Wonder if this bug could be fixed some
>way?
>

Well, I agree, or I wouldn't be using RCS in the first place.
But even though I'm the only coder on the project, I've managed to work
the main library file up to 256+ K, and I suspect it's not at all
rare for RCS projects to have files in that range.

256K is the key number, not 10M.

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