RCS file corruption.

[Otto Meta]

> I have experienced this problem several times.  In my case it seemed

> to be a problem between 'Unix' and 'DOS' files.  In each case, I have
> been able to fix it by editing the RCS file using vim and deleting all
> the extraneous carriage returns - :%s/^M$//<enter>  Sometimes I've had
> to do it twice.  Once I do that, it seems to work.


fromdos or dos2unix might save you a lot of work there. ;-)

Otto

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