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On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 18:58:12 +0200, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at telia.com> wrote: >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??? > Technically, yes (it's not a valid token character). Really it's irrelevant though - the RCS wrappers are the only safe way to access the repository these days, as there may be binary deltas, compressed deltas, new -k options, etc. Tony