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From: "Uwe H. Steinfeld" <usteinfeld@nikocity.de>
To: "Tolkin, Steve" <Steve.Tolkin@fmr.com>, <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: rcs ci fails under cygwin; ci foo hangs leaving a lock file RCS/fo_
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 11:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <020b01bfcbf3$5bbf0500$bc2736d5@uhs> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F614BF868E0DD411A5A700508B957E0038D007@MSGBOS679NTS.fmr.com>

----- Original Message -----
From: Tolkin, Steve <Steve.Tolkin@fmr.com>
Subject: rcs ci fails under cygwin; ci foo hangs leaving a lock file RCS/fo_
>
> I have been using this successfully in a DOS box for months.
> But when I run it under cygwin  ci foo hangs (for every file foo I have
> tried).
> It creates a lock file named RCS/fo_
> but never gets any further.  What is the problem?
> rcsdiff and co work fine in cygwin, so I suspect the problem is that some
> file is not writable.
>

Try "export RCSINIT=-x"

Uwe


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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-06-01  8:21 Tolkin, Steve
2000-06-01 11:00 ` Uwe H. Steinfeld [this message]

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