From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rick Rankin To: Cygwin Mailing List Subject: Re: RCS 5.7 & bin/text mounts Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 09:56:00 -0000 Message-id: <20000204164955.6043.qmail@web802.mail.yahoo.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-02/msg00062.html I rebuilt RCS on a text mounted filesystem, and so far, it seems to work OK. I haven't stressed it very much, though. Rick -- Rick Rankin rick_rankin@yahoo.com --- Ian Miller wrote: > Ian Miller wrote: > > > > Hi, I'd like some advice on how I can make best use of the RCS 5.7 port > > for Cygwin B20. The README file says:- > > > > - the package has been built for binary mounts and not tested on > > nonbinary ones. But as RCS internally handles its files in UN*X > > LF format I don't expect it to work. > > > > However, I have all my partitions mounted as text!=binary as recommended by > > various posters and FAQs. I used to use the DJGPP port of RCS in > conjunction > > with NTEmacs 20.x and had no problems; but now if I check stuff in and out > > using NTEmacs and my old RCS files, I get corrupted RCS files, though it > > seems to work perfectly with newly created RCS files! > > Ok, a little more experimentation reveals that all is not well even with > new RCS files - although the latest version is checked out by NTEmacs in > text-mode, previous versions are displayed as "Unix" (i.e. binary mode), > and diffs as a result seem to go a bit funny... > > What is the best solution to this problem - simply to mount the partition > that I do my RCS work on, as binary? I still don't understand why RCS is > interfering with the extra CR's added by text-mode anyway... if that is > indeed the problem...? > > cheers, > ian > > -- > +------------------------------+----------------------------------------------+ > | ian miller | My other MUA is a GNU. > | > | ian@gingerspice.demon.co.uk | http://www.gingerspice.demon.co.uk > | > +------------------------------+----------------------------------------------+ > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com