From: smithj AT ksu DOT edu ("Jeffery G. Smith") Subject: Re: Strange failure with CVS and diff 7 Feb 1997 07:38:42 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <32FB4053.571A.cygnus.gnu-win32@ksu.edu> References: <32FAB546 DOT 6546 AT chromatic DOT com> Reply-To: smithj AT ksu DOT edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) Original-To: Shankar Unni Original-CC: Lists - Cygnus GNU Win32 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Shankar Unni wrote: > > I've been trying to use the NT port of CVS 1.9.2 from ftp.cyclic.com, > with their port of RCS 5.7, and the GNU diff from Cygwin32 Beta 17.1. > > I got a strange failure during a checkin: when RCS ran diff (with a > --rcs, I believe), some (all?) of the output came out on the TTY instead > of into the RCS file!! I've been unable to duplicate this by running > "diff --rcs" by hand, but can make this happen any time with "cvs > commit" on a modified file. > > Has anyone else seen anything like this? Or has anyone gotten this > combination to work? I don't have any trouble with the diff 2.7 port > that I downloaded from the same CVS site where I got CVS and RCS.. I've noticed the same thing but in my case everything works correctly, I just get the diff output to the screen as a "bonus". In other words, the diff output seems to be getting to the rcs file ok but I also get it to the screen. -- I'm Luke Skywalker; I'm here to rescue you. /* Jeffery G. Smith, MCSE, smithj AT pobox DOT com * * BS-RHIT, MS-OSU, DJ-WMHD (aka Doc. Insomnia) * * Physics Computer Support Team Coach * * http://pobox.com/~smithj/ */ - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".