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

[Thomas Mellman]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Thomas Mellman wrote:
>
> > 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.)

Thank you for your response.


(by "master files", I understand "archive files" (i.e. ,v), right?)

Does that mean that I have to have my RCS directories on a different
mount point that is binary mounted?

I thought I'd read somewhere that the source code itself was smart
enough to do that and always opened the archives in binary mode ...




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Thomas Mellman