From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Miller To: Cygwin Mailing List Subject: Re: RCS 5.7 & bin/text mounts Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 16:44:00 -0000 Message-id: <389A20EA.E27E5751@gingerspice.demon.co.uk> References: <389A1DF1.EF1A37FD@gingerspice.demon.co.uk> X-SW-Source: 2000-02/msg00046.html 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