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>Oracle Developper uses propriettary pseudo-binary file format, which
>is fault prone -- if CVS changes length of keyword value
>(e. g. $Author: xy $ to $Author: xyz $), Oracle Developper fails to
>open the file.
>It is possible to eliminate this disadvantage of CVS - simply change
>the behaviour of expand_keywords function in rcs.c.
>But I imagine a new kflag (not compatible to RCS but useful for files
>that cannot be changed in length by CVS), e. g. -kvp (to express our
>goal to refuse migration from CVS to PVCS ;-)
>Checking in and out of file with -kvp flag would:
>* NOT expand $Keyword$
>* expanding $Keyword: Value $ count length of the old Value and
>cut the new one (if longer than) to the length or right pad it
>with spaces (if shorter than).
Have you looked into the existing -kk and -ko keyword expansions? If
they're not in the CVS documentation then you'll find it in the RCS man
pages, specifically in co(1).
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