[cvsnt] Re: CVSNT 2.0.34 puts extra info in RCS files that CVSGraph does not like...

[Bo Berglund]

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???



/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)