Re: Deltatexts format

[Aaron S. Hawley]

Yeah there needs to be documentation on this, not much in rcsfile(5)

my guess is they are sed script commands:

"d16 1" means delete line sixteen from file handle one.

did you have a problem or did something get lost in the translation?
perhaps you meant to use the word "puzzle"..

good day,
/a

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Christian Viehmann wrote:

> If I look at a RCS file, I find in the "description" part first the latest
> version of the file, and then all deltatexts. My question is about
> descriptors like "d16 1" or "a8 1", which appear in my text(example below).
> What do they stand for? Are the digits the line numbers, or what?
>
> I'd be glad to get behind this problem.
>
> <snip>


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