(rcs.info)File format

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3.1 File format
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An RCS file’s contents are described by the grammar below(1).  Overall,
the format is free–format text.  In most environments RCS uses the ISO
8859/1 encoding: visible graphic characters are (octal) codes 041–176
and 240–377, and whitespace characters are codes 010–015 and 040.
*TODO:*  Discuss or point to encoding compatibility issues.

comma-v grammar

comma-v particulars

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   (1) This section is adapted from the ‘rcsfile(5)’ manpage, written by
Walter F. Tichy.