better way to archive large RCS files?

[Neil Gower]

I've got some really big RCS files in my repository (hundreds of megs), 
which are slowing things down to a crawl.  I'd like to take the history 
for these files offline and archive it somewhere, while preserving the 
current version number in the repository.  Is there a good way to do this?

The closest I've come so far is to remove the overgrown file from the 
repository, and then re-add the latest version.  This resets the version 
number to 1.1.1.1 though, which messes up developers' workspaces.

Ideas (or scripts) are much appreciated.

Cheers,

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Neil Gower
Brainbox Games