From: Ian Miller <ian@gingerspice.demon.co.uk>
To: Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: RCS 5.7 & bin/text mounts
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 16:44:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <389A20EA.E27E5751@gingerspice.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <389A1DF1.EF1A37FD@gingerspice.demon.co.uk>
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
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-02-03 16:31 Ian Miller
2000-02-03 16:44 ` Ian Miller [this message]
2000-02-04 9:03 ` Andre Oliveira da Costa
2000-02-04 9:56 Rick Rankin
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