In that case, there's not a solution available. BTW, you'll find that
keyword expansion causes other problems, so you'll probably prefer to
use -ko or -kb anyway.
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>I dont think you understood the request. The keyword replacement was desired,
>but in such a
>way as to not expand the field. ie:
>$Author: williams $ can become $Author: rexj $ but
>$Author: rexj $ would become $Author: will $
>Rex.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Sander) on 02/15/2000 04:34:47 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>cc: (bcc: Rex Jolliff/YM/RWDOE)
>Subject: Re: Enhancement suggestion
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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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