From: colin AT bird DOT fu DOT is DOT saga-u DOT ac DOT jp (Colin Peters) Subject: RE: RCS for WinNT 2 Sep 1997 02:03:14 -0700 Sender: mail AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BCB6C7.E7B6DF40.cygnus.gnu-win32@gbird0> Original-To: "'sshteingold AT cctrading DOT com'" Original-Cc: "'GNU-Win32'" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com sshteingold AT cctrading DOT com wrote: > Where can I get the working RCS binaries for winnt? [snip] > (I have an environment var USER set, but apparently it's not enough). > Also, I use binary (aka UNIX) file format (no CRLF, just LF). Will RCS > work with it? (someone claimed that RCS 5.6 converts everything to > text - aka DOS - file format) Both GNU RCS 5.6.4.4 and 5.7 are available from the Virtually UNIX site: http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/contributors.html I'm currently using 5.6.4.4 and it seems to work fine just with USER set; I don't need whoami or anything like that. I also seem to remember checking in and out some small binary files and having no problems, but I do tend to work fairly often in text mode, so I can't give a certain answer to your second question. Colin. -- Colin Peters - Saga Univ. Dept. of Information Science -- colin AT bird DOT fu DOT is DOT saga-u DOT ac DOT jp - finger for PGP public key -- http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/index.html -- http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/6162/ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".