Re: using files with .xls and .doc in CVS

[Larry Jones]

Paul Sander writes:
> 
> The definitive RCS sources permit configurations that can either memory map
> files or use temporary files, depending on the capabilities of the system.
> Although CVS' "librified" RCS cuts corners to get the basic capabilities,
> it does little more than expose the command line as an API.  It should be
> (theoretically) possible to pull in the definitive RCS sources into CVS
> and regain that capability.

The current development version of CVS uses mmap() when it's available,
so that will be in the next release.

-Larry Jones

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