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From: "Andre Oliveira da Costa" <costa@cade.com.br>
To: "Ian Miller" <ian@gingerspice.demon.co.uk>,
        "Cygwin Mailing List" <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: RE: RCS 5.7 & bin/text mounts
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 15:03:13 -0200
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[...]
> What is the best solution to this problem - simply to mount the partition
> that I do my RCS work on, as binary? I still don't understand why RCS is
> interfering with the extra CR's added by text-mode anyway... if that is
> indeed the problem...?

You're right about the exrta CR's: if the RCS file foo.c,v is stored in
"UNIX mode" (no extra CR's) and you check foo.c in "DOS mode", the extra
CR's _will_ count as differences, even if you haven't changed a single char.

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André Oliveira da Costa
(costa@cade.com.br)

"An unrecoverable error occured and windows will shut down.
If the problem persists please contact http://www.linux.org/"


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