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diff --git a/lib-src/rcs-checkin b/lib-src/rcs-checkin
index d813377d0c..365050e958 100755
--- a/lib-src/rcs-checkin
+++ b/lib-src/rcs-checkin
@@ -1,4 +1,46 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+#! /bin/sh
+
+# This script accepts any number of file arguments and checks them into RCS.
+
+# Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1995, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+#
+# This file is part of GNU Emacs.
+#
+# GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+# any later version.
+#
+# GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the
+# Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+# Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+
+# Arguments which are detectably either RCS masters (with names ending in ,v)
+# or Emacs version files  (with names of the form foo.~<number>~) are ignored.
+# For each file foo, the script looks for Emacs version files related to it.
+# These files are checked in as deltas, oldest first, so that the contents of
+# the file itself becomes the latest revision in the master.
+#
+# The first line of each file is used as its description text.  The file itself
+# is not deleted, as under VC with vc-keep-workfiles at its default of t, but
+# all the version files are.
+#
+# If an argument file is already version-controlled under RCS, any version
+# files are added to the list of deltas and deleted, and then the workfile
+# is checked in again as the latest version.  This is probably not quite
+# what was wanted, and is the main reason VC doesn't simply call this to
+# do checkins.
+#
+# This script is intended to be used to convert files with an old-Emacs-style
+# version history for use with VC (the Emacs 19 version-control interface),
+# which likes to use RCS as its back end.  It was written by Paul Eggert
+# and revised/documented for use with VC by Eric S. Raymond, Mar 19 1993.
 
 case $# in
 0)
@@ -12,9 +54,6 @@ ls_owner_pattern='[^ ][^ ]*  *[^ ][^ ]*  *\([^ ][^ ]*\)'
 
 for file
 do
-	# Check that file is readable.
-	<$file || exit
-
 	# Make it easier to say `rcs-checkin *'
 	# by ignoring file names that already contain `~', or end in `,v'.
 	case $file in
@@ -23,6 +62,9 @@ do
 	# Ignore non-files too.
 	test -f "$file" || continue
 
+	# Check that file is readable.
+	test -r "$file" || exit
+
 	# If the RCS file does not already exist,
 	# initialize it with a description from $file's first line.
 	rlog -R "$file" >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
@@ -31,7 +73,7 @@ do
 	# Get list of old files.
 	oldfiles=`
 		ls $file.~[0-9]*~ 2>/dev/null |
-		sort -t~ -n +1
+		sort -t~ -n -k 2
 	`
 
 	# Check that they are properly sorted by date.
@@ -63,7 +105,7 @@ $file"
 		mv "$oldfile" "$file" || exit
 		ls_l=`ls -l "$file"` || exit
 		owner=-w`expr " $ls_l" : " $ls_owner_pattern"` || owner=
-		ci -d -l -q $owner "$file" </dev/null || exit
+		echo "Formerly ${oldfile}" | ci -d -l -q $owner "$file" || exit
 	done
 
 	# Bring $file back from $file.~-~, and check it in.
@@ -73,3 +115,4 @@ $file"
 	ci -d -q -u $owner -m"entered into RCS" "$file" || exit
 done
 
+# arch-tag: 89c86949-ef04-4380-838b-bc1444dcb074