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Re: GNU RCS & mks/RCS

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On Thursday, 20 August 2020 at 16:31:38 UTC-7, James Dale wrote:
> I understand this is a very old conversation... But I wonder if anyone can share this script, or fill in what the "single 3 line difference" is that I should look out for? 
> 
> I have a large repository of MKS archives which I am hoping to resurrect.
> On Tuesday, 11 December 2001 at 02:20:24 UTC-8, c...@aladdin.de wrote: 
> > I've once written a script to convert MKSSI archives to CVs. 
> > It should work in your case too. 
> > It's on ftp://ftp.aladdin.de/pub/people/chris/tmp/mks2cvs.pl.gz 
> > regards, 
> > chris

In case anyone stumbles across this latter, I found out the answer.
The MKS SI (RCS) format has an extra "format text;" in the header and an extra text which comes before "desc" and "log" entries and has the format "ext @ Some special format text @"

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