From lansdowne@acapella.co.uk Fri Jan 17 08:10:53 1997 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil t nil nil nil nil] [nil "Fri" "17" "January" "1997" "15:56:40" "+0000" "lansdowne@acapella.co.uk" "lansdowne@acapella.co.uk" "<3WxDWBA4E63ykAeU@acapella.co.uk>" "97" "Re: Emacs for win95 and RCS" "^From:" nil nil "1" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from zeus.tcp.net.uk (zeus.tcp.net.uk [195.80.0.33]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.8.3+CSE/7.2ju) with ESMTP id IAA26949 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 08:10:44 -0800 Received: from acapella.co.uk (al071.du.pipex.com [193.130.251.71]) by zeus.tcp.net.uk (8.7.6/8.7) with SMTP id QAA06979 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 16:10:28 GMT Message-ID: <3WxDWBA4E63ykAeU@acapella.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199701121047.CAA27483@joker.cs.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Version 3.01 From: Lansdowne To: Geoff Voelker Subject: Re: Emacs for win95 and RCS Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 15:56:40 +0000 In message <199701121047.CAA27483@joker.cs.washington.edu>, Geoff Voelker writes >Rich, > >It could have something to do with the way arguments are being >passed to diff as a subprocess. Try placing the following in >your startup file and see if it makes any difference: > >(setq win32-quote-process-args t) > >-geoff sorry, but that did not help at all! Any ideas? Have you got RCS going on Win95 at all or do you use NT? - I was just wondering if anyone knows if it works on Win95. I have also had some problems with recover-session. It seemed to find the file ok in ~/_saves.... but when I types C-c C-c on the relevant filename it looked in emacs/bin/_saves... I have just changed the variable for the prefix to make the autosave list get plased in the bin directory to see if it makes any difference. Thanks, -Rich. > >lansdowne@acapella.co.uk writes: >> >> I have got things up and running fairly well but I have a small problem >> with getting RCS going. I wonder if you can help? >> >> I installed a pre-compiled version of 19.34. >> I downloaded the RCS pointed to in your webpage and also the gnu diff. >> For ease I placed the executables for both the RCS and diff into the >> emacs/bin directory. >> >> I tried a small test file, registering, checking out, editing and >> checking in. Everything went fine until the checkin. For some reason >> it reports an unknown problem with running diff. >> >> I have tried running diff from the command line and it seems to work ok. >> >> Have I done something stupid in the installation so that it can't find >> the correct file? >> >> Here is a copy of my message buffer and the vc buffer. >> >> >> *Messages* >> Loading vc... >> Loading derived... >> Loading derived...done >> Loading vc...done >> Registering c:/rjl/temp.txt... >> Registering c:/rjl/temp.txt...done >> Note: file is write protected >> Checking out c:/rjl/temp.txt... >> Checking out c:/rjl/temp.txt...done >> Wrote c:/rjl/temp.txt >> Running rcsdiff...FAILED (status 2) >> Enter a change comment. Type C-c C-c when done. >> Checking in c:/rjl/temp.txt... >> Running ci...FAILED (status 1) >> >> >> *vc* >> c:/rjl/RCS/temp.txt,v <-- temp.txt >> new revision: 1.2; previous revision: 1.1 >> ci: diff.exe failed for unknown reason >> ci aborted >> >> >> Can you help? >> >> Thanks a lot, >> Rich. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Richard Lansdowne >> Acapella Ltd >> Email: lansdowne@acapella.co.uk Epsilon House >> WWW: http://www.acapella.co.uk Chilworth Research Centre >> Phone: +44 (0)1703 769008 Southampton >> Fax: +44 (0)1703 768612 SO16 7NP >> Mobile: +44 (0)468 456299 ENGLAND > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Richard Lansdowne Acapella Ltd Email: lansdowne@acapella.co.uk Epsilon House WWW: http://www.acapella.co.uk Chilworth Research Centre Phone: +44 (0)1703 769008 Southampton Fax: +44 (0)1703 768612 SO16 7NP Mobile: +44 (0)468 456299 ENGLAND