* RCS 5.7 & bin/text mounts
@ 2000-02-03 16:31 Ian Miller
2000-02-03 16:44 ` Ian Miller
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From: Ian Miller @ 2000-02-03 16:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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!
[I believe NTEmacs adopts the "approved" Cygwin approach of removing the
CR's for display and replacing them when the file is written (even though
it is not itself a Cygwin port)? ]
I don't understand why there should be a problem with using this port of
RCS with text mounts, because surely it just means that extra characters
are checked in and out (i.e. the CR's)? I presume the DJGPP port did something
different re: the CR/LF situation, and that is why I am having trouble
checking in/out old files? Please advise!
cheers,
ian
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* Re: RCS 5.7 & bin/text mounts
2000-02-03 16:31 RCS 5.7 & bin/text mounts Ian Miller
@ 2000-02-03 16:44 ` Ian Miller
2000-02-04 9:03 ` Andre Oliveira da Costa
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From: Ian Miller @ 2000-02-03 16:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Cygwin Mailing List
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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* Re: RCS 5.7 & bin/text mounts
@ 2000-02-04 9:56 Rick Rankin
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From: Rick Rankin @ 2000-02-04 9:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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
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--- Ian Miller <ian@gingerspice.demon.co.uk> 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
>
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>
+------------------------------+----------------------------------------------+
> | ian miller | My other MUA is a GNU.
> |
> | ian@gingerspice.demon.co.uk | http://www.gingerspice.demon.co.uk
> |
>
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