Problem with RCS

[Mike Watson]

	We  have noticed  a  problem  with  RCS.  If  you  have header
information in your  file   and have a  file  "Makefile.anything", the
header  info doesn't get properly  commented  out upon  checkout.  New
lines added by RCS to  the header info in the  file are not  commented
out.  The header  info  is in proper   format via rcsit.  The  problem
doesn't occur if the makefile is  called "Makefile" or "makefile".  It
also  doesn't occur for shell files  (which have  the same format  for
comments as Makefiles) no matter what the name is.

	One fix we have found is to  'rcs -c "#  " Makefile.whatever'.
This will properly (for makefiles) put a comment header  at the begin-
ning of  every line of header  info in the file.   It seems reasonable
though that if RCS is smart enough to put  a  comment  header on every
line of a shell script (no matter what the name), it could do the same
for Makefiles.  If y'all have any solutions let me know.

		     Arpa:  mwatson at nswc-oas.arpa
		 Usenet:  uunet!nswc-oas.arpa!mwatson

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