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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, peter@spinner.dialix.com.au
Subject: Re: CVSUP and CVS branches: still not synchronized, please fix!
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>cvs supplies (or supplied) a script to convert "pre-death-support" 
>repositories (ie: those using Attics as the primary indication of "alive") 
>to the newer "state: dead" form.  Hmm.. it seems to have gone, it was 
>called "convert.sh".

Not gone, just dead :-).  It looks like rev.1.2 broke it (it probably
really needed the rcs extension -K).

Bruce