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From: "Gary" <gfilipski AT satx DOT rr DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RCS 5.7 problems...
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 23:40:21 -0500
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Hello All,

I've been trying to build RCS 5.7 under 1.3.2 cygwin and am having what
seems to be some sort of internal RCS or cygwin problem.  I've managed to
configure & build the subsystem just fine -- with or without the patches
that have been posted and have the same problem either way.... although I
never did find the "obsure inner function" message posted by corinna that
was mentioned.

In several cases the "ci" command destroys the RCS file itself on check-in.
It leaves a huge chunk out of the source in the ,v file.  This is very
repeatable WHEN it happens to a file, but it does not happen on a "ci" to
every file, only "select" ones.  It happens regardless of whether the mount
is binary or text.  The insidious part is that unless you check the size of
the ,v file you don't know it's happened until you check the file out the
next time and most of it's not there -- only to realize that you just
blitzed the good copy you HAD.

IE, start with a ,v file of size 2635 bytes, do a "co -l", make a minor
change, do a "ci -u".  ,v file size is now 1440 bytes.  If you "co -l" again
you only get half the orginal file.

Has anyone experienced a problem like this?  I've got an old copy of the FSF
DOS version of the RCS 5.7 programs and they don't exhibit this problem.
I'm running Win2k SP2 on a Pentium Pro 200... nothing exotic.  A system
search yields exactly one cygwin DLL dated 20 May @ 22:29.  This machine has
never had cygwin on it before 1.3.2.

*ANY* help and/or advice would be appreciated.

If someone has RCS working I'd happily trade one of my problem RCS files &
test script for their executables in an attempt to narrow the scope of the
problem.

Thanks,
Gary

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