From: acherman AT inf DOT ethz DOT ch (Erwin Achermann)
Subject: RCS-5.7 and B19
13 Mar 1998 02:28:32 -0800
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Earnie Boyd said:
> Goto Christopher Faylor's page and get the cygwinb19.zip file.  He has a 
> new version which may help.  Before starting bash try setting 
> CYGWIN32=notty.  If that doesn't work then exit bash set CYGWIN32=tty.  
> If that doesn't work, report it to Christopher.
> 
> NOTE: You cannot change the [no]tty value in the CYGWIN32 value after 
> bash has started.  This could cause crashes and core dumps.

I tried all combinations of [no]binmode [no]tty on Chris' cygwinb19.dll
Nothing helped! Sigh. rcs -i always fails in the presence of an RCS/
directory, leaving two empty lock files. It works though when no RCS/
directory is arround. So this must be a very subtle directory/file
handling bug.

Chris' cygwinb19.dll solved at least the problems with MikTeX and
cygwin. ( MikTeX was looping infinitely on ordinary TeX errors...) 

Will Chris' patches eventually show up in Sergey's coolview? What are
the plans with those two versions?

Cheers 
Erwin

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