Date:	Mon, 5 Jan 1998 10:43:18 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	eyal DOT ben-david AT aks DOT com
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: problem: djgpp emacs and rcs
In-Reply-To:	<42256582.006647A7.00@aks.com>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.980105104302.14443B-100000@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Sun, 4 Jan 1998 eyal DOT ben-david AT aks DOT com wrote:

> When I want to register a file to RCS from within DJGPP EMACS, it
> complains that a program called 'admin' is not found unless a
> subdirectory 'rcs' is already there.  If I create this directory
> manually there is no problem.

AFAIK, the *only* reliable way of using the DJGPP port of RCS is to
always have that RCS subdirectory.  I always create it in any
directory where I use RCS, and haven't seen any problems.  I suggest
you to stick with the subdirectory method.

The version-control support in Emacs has some complicated logic to
determine where are your master files kept, and I won't be surprised
if some of it fails due to DOS 8+3 file namespace and the shell
features that some of the version-control commands use.  Since I don't
trust RCS to work on DOS without the special subdirectory, I never
bothered to look deep enough into the Emacs support code.

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