Reportwriter & SCCS

The error that was mentioned in the original posting on this subject is caused by SCCS inserting a newline character to break a long line.

There is a solution to this.

I have two bits of 'C' code that I am willing to post, if required, as Public Domain :-

rex_recover : Attempts to recover when SCCS corrupts a report

rex_sccs : Acts as a filter when putting a report under SCCS or when

               retrieving from SCCS.

The programs basically break long lines before admin/deltas and reconstructs the report upon gets.

As an alternative try using RCS, can anyone confirm that RCS does not corrupt reports in this way ??

Ian A. Parkin.

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