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From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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Subject: Re: CVS Branches hits again!
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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 21:13:22 PDT
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I realized that editing the RCS file directly was kinda silly.
The appropriate RCS commands are:

rcs -b <file>
co -l <file>
ci -f -sdead -m"Removing already-removed file" <file>

  Bill