Re: help with RCS under cygwin: newlines on text mount

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Thomas Mellman wrote:

> I have downloaded RCS 5.7 and built it under cygwin.  I moved conf.heg to
> conf.h and had to modify has_mmap to be 0, but other than that, it built
> fine.
> 
> But if (on a text-mounted directory) I "ci -l file" and then try to rcsdiff
> the file, every line is different. 
> If I say "co -p file | sed 's/^M//' | > diff - file"  the file 
> compares fine.
> Was there some other change I had to do so that RCS works correctly
> on text-mounted directories?

The master files _must_ be written in binary mode, so that they always 
have the Unix-style LF-only end-of-line format.  This should be so even 
if the directory is mounted in text mode.

(Doing so also gives you an additional bonus of being able to share the 
msater files with Unix and GNU/Linux systems.)