RE: Intermittent Issues with RCS binary co

[Meinert, Debora L.]

I would think we are using the GNU diffutils because we downloaded the
software from the website (www.gnu.org) and renamed the RCS that was bundled
with the OS.  You mention that these issues are hard to diagnose, has anyone
else reported something similar?  Can you suggest a way we may narrow our
scope?  You mention 3 areas below that could have problems...it almost
appears as though there are inherent problems when working with binary
files?  How can we try to determine which area we may be looking at?  

Thanks  

-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron S. Hawley [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 10:48 AM
To: Meinert, Debora L.
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Intermittent Issues with RCS binary co


is RCS using GNU diffutils or the diff local to your OS?

these sorts of issues are likely hard to diagnose, because

1) dealing with binary files
2) Might be a problem with binary file support in GNU diffutils
3) Might be a problem in RCS code

/a

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Meinert, Debora L. wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We are experiencing intermittent problems when trying to checkout software
> that is in binary format.  We are running RCS Version 5.7.  We downloaded
> and installed it on April 14, 2002 and haven't patched since then.  Here
is
> our issue:
>
> On occasion when checking out a binary file using the following command:
>
>  co -r1.0 "XXGLPMCA.rdf" > "XXGLPMCA.rdf.out" 2>&1
>
> We find that the file, that has been checked out, gets truncated by more
> than half the bytes of the original file.  We are running on an HP-UX
> version 11.11 Superdome server, utilizing MC/ServiceGuard (failover).  Two
> situations are, forms will not compile because of the corrupted file and
> reports cannot be opened because of the corruption.  Have you had anyone
> report a problem similar to this and can you offer any suggestions?
Please
> feel free to contact me with other questions or suggestions.  Any info or
> help will be greatly appreciated as we are experiencing this in our
> production environment and are looking for a solution.
>
> Thanks,
> Debbie Meinert