Zip files in SCCS

[Shashi Anand]

When a zip file added to SCCS is checked out and checked in, the following error message is displayed:
Leading SOH character in line 28 of file not allowed".

There are no such errors while adding the file for the first time into SCCS as a binary file with -b option in admin command.

How to overcome this error? Is it possible to create a new binary delta in SCCS?

Regards,
Shashi Anand B
E-Mail : shashianand_b@hotmail.com

[Paul Sperry]

Lines beginning with an SOH ASCII character (binary 001)
cannot be placed in the SCCS file unless the SOH is quoted using
a \ (backslash). SOH has special meaning to SCCS and causes this
error.

[harry d brown jr]

SCCS should ONLY be used on SOURCE files, files that are not binary, including uuencoded files!!! Another problem with SCCS is that % commands have special meanings, so unless you take that into consideration when developing code to be stored under SCCS, then you are in for a world of hurt. You could write a preprocessor for it, but then you hurt the integrity of the original file.

I'd suggest you migrating to CVS:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Development/Tools/cvs-1.11/

live free or die
harry