Re: Issue with RCS 5.7 for win32

[Aaron S. Hawley]

seems you might not be alone on this problem.  visit and follow this
thread:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-rcs/2004-07/msg00000.html

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Boardman, Megan wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've been trying to use version 5.7 of the win32 build of RCS, as downloaded
> at http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/trinkle/RCS/
> <http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/trinkle/RCS/> .  I'm working on Windows NT
> and 2000 boxes, and have been experiencing problems with files becoming
> corrupted when they are committed via a "ci -l <filename>" command.
> Essentially what ends up the RCS log has sections of the file missing -
> sometimes just part of a line, but more often whole sections of the
> document.
>
> [...]
>
> I've used RCS with these sorts of files on UNIX for years with no
> difficulties - is this a bug with the Windows version?  Is there another
> version of the distribution I could try?

Have you heard of Cygwin?  It's a an attempt to create a Unix environment
on Windows by installing many of the GNU tools.  Might be worth looking
into:

http://www.cygwin.com/

Hope that helps.
/a

> Kind regards,
> Megan Boardman