Re: possible bug (rcs, version 5.9, occurs on Debian 7)

Hello,
This is becoming a real mystery. Let me describe what I did after receving
your last message:

(1) uninstalled the rcs version that gets installed in Debian 7 with
      apt-get install rcs
     (a version from the 5.8 series);
(2) installed the latest version on the GNU site (5.9.2)
(3) in my home dir I created a directory testrcs;
(4) within testrcs I unzipped rcsexample.zip (am attaching it again);
(5) executed ci -l In.cpp (success)
(6) executed ci In.cpp (failure)

I am attaching the same file rcsexample.zip as in my earlier post as well as
the command line record of the operations (4-6)
Regards,
bostjanv


On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Thien-Thi Nguyen <[email protected]> wrote:

> () Bostjan Vilfan <[email protected]>
> () Fri, 31 Jan 2014 08:47:58 +0100
>
>    file is unchanged; reverting to previous revision 1.7.1.1
>
>    following which another message is generated,
>
>    Aborted
>
>    and an empty file, ",In.cpp,v,", appears in the RCS
>    subdirectory.
>
> I'm sorry i cannot reproduce this w/ RCS 5.9.2 on Debian 7
> and don't have earlier versions installed to test against.
> Have you tried 5.9.2 (released 2013-11-28)?
>
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> Thien-Thi Nguyen
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bostjan@wwpecker-5-deb:~/testrcs$ unzip ../rcsexample.zip
Archive:  ../rcsexample.zip
  inflating: src/In.cpp              
  inflating: src/RCS/In.cpp,v        
bostjan@wwpecker-5-deb:~/testrcs$ ls
src
bostjan@wwpecker-5-deb:~/testrcs$ cd src
bostjan@wwpecker-5-deb:~/testrcs/src$ ci -l In.cpp
RCS/In.cpp,v  <--  In.cpp
file is unchanged; reverting to previous revision 1.7.1.1
done
bostjan@wwpecker-5-deb:~/testrcs/src$ ci In.cpp
RCS/In.cpp,v  <--  In.cpp
file is unchanged; reverting to previous revision 1.7.1.1
Aborted
bostjan@wwpecker-5-deb:~/testrcs/src$