Re: RCS Keyword Expansion format for dates [SOLVED]

"Aaron S. Hawley" <[email protected]> Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:19:02 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.rcs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Amit Uttamchandani
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for the reply. After looking into this further it turns out that this is
> not an issue with RCS but with CVS. CVS has a configuration variable
> *DateFormat* that needs to be explicitly set to *old*, otherwise the dates will
> be formatted with a '-' instead of '/'. I thought CVS uses the RCS binaries but
> it has its own code to handle keyword expansion.
>
> The reason I thought it was RCS related is because of the RCS keyword expansion.
>
> Amit

Ok, I wondered if you were using CVS.  Yeah it was confusing that CVS
absorbed a few too many features from RCS, including references to its
name.

No worries.
/a

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