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>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:

  Alan> Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:

  >> However this fails, because of RCS's locking model. I have a
  >> different user name at home, than I do at work.

  Alan> Why don't you just change your home username to match your
  Alan> work username?  That would seem to be the easiest solution.


It's a lot of work. It means moving ownership of a large number of
directories, and parts of my laptop file system. This seems like a lot
of effort to go to when reconfiguring RCS might be the way.

Cheers

Phil