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On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 10:50:55 +0100, Tony Hoyle <tmh at nodomain.org> wrote: >On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 19:43:22 +0200, Bo Berglund ><bo.berglund at telia.com> wrote: > >The @ characters are necessary when then username contains >non-alphanumeric tokens. It's actually an error in the original RCS >specs - they treated the author name as a token which fails horribly >if the name has a space or several other characters in it (@, ;, a few >others). If I look closely in the RCS example submitted by the ViewCvs poster I find this: date 2004.03.26.13.23.19; author @chris.bridges@; state Exp; Does this imply that . is one of the "special" characters??? /Bo (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)