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Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 07:25:16 -0500
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
From: Mike Hackbart <hackbart AT chesapeake DOT rps DOT slb DOT com>
Subject: Re: RCS and Network Drives - ENODEV, ENOENT
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At 11:00 AM 11/4/98 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Mike Hackbart wrote:
>
>> c:\devel\rcstest\rcs>copy main~1.c_v i:\censoft\xxrcs
>
>Why did you use the short 8+3 alias instead of the long name main.c,v?
>The COPY command (and all other commands) built into Windows 95
>version of COMMAND.COM support long file names, so why didn't you use
>them?  (You might need to quote the long file name because of the
>comma, but otherwise they should work.)

I was trying all possible variations that I could think of.  This just
happened to be the example that i sent to you.  It doesn't make any
difference since I could never get it to work.

>
>> c:\devel\rcstest was then changed to delete the rcs folder and add a file
>> named rcs that contained:
>> 
>> i:\censoft\xxrcs
>
>I see you tried to use the RCS pseudo-link feature.  I have never
>tried to use that, and I don't know whether it works correctly on
>Windows 9X (or at all).  Maybe that is the source of your problem.
>
>What happens if you chdir to the I: drive and try to extract the file
>there?  Does it work?  If it does, then the problem most probably is
>caused by the pseudo-link feature.
>

I tried this with no luck (exactly the same results as before):

I:\CENSOFT\xxrcs\lc>co -l bbram.c
RCS/bbram.c,v  -->  bbram.c
revision 1.1 (locked)
co: RCS/bbram.c,v: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
co: saved in RCS/,bbram.c,

I:\CENSOFT\xxrcs>cd rcs

I:\CENSOFT\xxrcs\RCS>dir

 Volume in drive I is SYS3
 Directory of I:\CENSOFT\xxrcs\RCS

.              <DIR>                        .
..             <DIR>                        ..
BBRAM    CV          6,219  11-04-98  7:19a bbram.c,v
BBRAM    C           6,229  11-04-98  7:12a ,bbram.c,
         2 file(s)         12,448 bytes
         2 dir(s)   1,001,652,224 bytes free

I:\CENSOFT\xxrcs\RCS>



>>  Directory of I:\CENSOFT\xxrcs
>> 
>> .              <DIR>                        .
>> ..             <DIR>                        ..
>> MAIN     CV         34,814  11-03-98 10:33a main.c,v
>
>Note that the short alias is different in this case: it is not
>main~1.c_v, but something else.  I don't know what is the significance
>of this fact.

Interesting, though.  Must be the Novell server?

>
>> synchronization between the server time and the local PC time.  Could this
>> be the source of the problem?
>
>I don't think RCS cares about the time stamps.
>
OK

Thanks again for your replies,
Mike