Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/01/05/03:47:41
On Sun, 4 Jan 1998 eyal DOT ben-david AT aks DOT com wrote:
> When I want to register a file to RCS from within DJGPP EMACS, it
> complains that a program called 'admin' is not found unless a
> subdirectory 'rcs' is already there. If I create this directory
> manually there is no problem.
AFAIK, the *only* reliable way of using the DJGPP port of RCS is to
always have that RCS subdirectory. I always create it in any
directory where I use RCS, and haven't seen any problems. I suggest
you to stick with the subdirectory method.
The version-control support in Emacs has some complicated logic to
determine where are your master files kept, and I won't be surprised
if some of it fails due to DOS 8+3 file namespace and the shell
features that some of the version-control commands use. Since I don't
trust RCS to work on DOS without the special subdirectory, I never
bothered to look deep enough into the Emacs support code.
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