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Subject: Re: rcs 5.7 truncated one of my files
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Richard Kandarian wrote:
> Sorry, I can't send you the offending files.
> 
> When I checked in the second version of a file, and then checked it out
> again, the checked out file was truncated without any error message.
> When I looked at the contents of the ,v file I found what looked like
> the same truncation. I recovered the ,v file and the new version file
> itself from backups, and I could not find the truncation in the
> recovered ,v file. I was able to check out the initial revision from it
> fine. I tried to check in and then check out the second version again,
> and the same truncation occurred as before.
> 
> Between the initial revision and the time the problem occurred I updated
> cygwin at least once, but I don't know whether rcs was updated at that
> time.

RCS has not been updated in years.


Can you find a way to reproduce the truncation?
If you can, then it ought to be possible to find the problem.
If you can't, this is likely going to remain an unsolved mystery.


Max.
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