rcs 5.7 truncated one of my files

[Richard Kandarian <richard dot kandarian at lanl dot gov>]

Sorry, I can't send you the offending files.

When I checked in the second version of a file, and then checked it out 
again, the checked out file was truncated without any error message. When I 
looked at the contents of the ,v file I found what looked like the same 
truncation. I recovered the ,v file and the new version file itself from 
backups, and I could not find the truncation in the recovered ,v file. I 
was able to check out the initial revision from it fine. I tried to check 
in and then check out the second version again, and the same truncation 
occurred as before.

Between the initial revision and the time the problem occurred I updated 
cygwin at least once, but I don't know whether rcs was updated at that time.

I've checked one other file and it works fine.



Richard Kandarian
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