I couldn't tell if the "stripped off" portion was the good part that you were interested in, or the bad part that you wanted to trash. Here is a quick script that assumes the stripped off part was to be tossed away.....

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use strict;

my $commentsep = '-' x 28;
my $recordsep = '=' x 77;
{
 local $/ = $recordsep;     # slurp everything up to the record sepera
+tor
 for my $record (<DATA>) {
   my @arr = split(/$commentsep/,$record);  # split on the comment sep
+arator
   if (@arr > 1) {                          # if we have at least one 
+comment
     $arr[-1] = '';                         # remove the last one
     $arr[-2] .= "$recordsep";
   }
   print join($commentsep,@arr);
 }
}

__DATA__
RCS file: /cvsroot/work/bar.txt
Working file: work/bar.txt
 head: 1.1
 branch:
locks: strict
access list:
keyword substitution: kv
total revisions: 2;     selected revisions: 2
 description:
----------------------------
revision 1.1
 date: 2001/08/23 00:19:47;  author: joe;  state: dead;
branches:  1.1.2;
file bar.txt was initially added on branch main.
----------------------------
revision 1.1.2.1
 date: 2001/08/23 00:19:47;  author: joe;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -0
adding some stuff to the document
======================================================================
+=======
 
RCS file: /cvsroot/work/foo.txt
Working file: work/foo.txt
 head: 1.1
 branch:
locks: strict
access list:
keyword substitution: kv
total revisions: 2;     selected revisions: 2
 description:
----------------------------
revision 1.1
 date: 2001/08/23 00:19:47;  author: joe;  state: dead;
branches:  1.1.2;
file foo.txt was initially added on branch main.
----------------------------
revision 1.1.2.1
 date: 2001/08/23 00:19:47;  author: joe;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -0
adding new text to my first file
======================================================================
+=======
[download]

-Blake

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