From: acherman AT inf DOT ethz DOT ch (Erwin Achermann)
Subject: Re: B19 and NTemacs
20 Mar 1998 15:12:15 -0800
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This particular RCS problem was due to a bug in cygwinb19.dll.
readlink() was ill behaving. Chris Faylor patched this, and eventually
this patch will find its way into  the 'official' release (asside: which
one is THE official one?)...

Happy bug hunting :)

Erwin

Stefan Hornburg wrote:
> 
> Erwin Achermann <acherman AT inf DOT ethz DOT ch> writes:
> 
> > This is really disquieting. vc.el worked like a charm on 19.36.6 and B18
> > but after upgrading to B19, it sometimes fails to check a new version
> > in, with no warning what so ever. But upon co it howls "unexpected end
> > of file RCS/calc.y,v  co aborted" leaving me with a small portion of my
> > calc.y file....
> > What makes me really wonder is the fact that this is totally
> > reproducible on some files only...
> > Next when i try to co an old version trough emacs, it complains:" $1\":
> > -c: line 3: syntax error: unexpected end of file"
> >
> 
> We had here a problem with B18 diff and non-GnuWin32 RCS tools. With
> large files corruption of the RCS files occurs.
> 
> Ciao    Stefan
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