From:	Bauke en Anja van Dijk <bvandyk AT wxs DOT nl>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: initializing RCS files on network drive
Date:	Tue, 10 Mar 1998 20:37:00 +0100
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Matthew H. Gerlach wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am having a bit of a problem with rcs that a search through dejanews
> offered no enlightenment.
>
> In short I cannot create an rcs file, using "rcs -i" or "ci", on a
> Win95's network drive.  In particular we are using Maestro's NFS software
> to connect to various UNIX hosts.  I can co/ci existing rcs files that
> live on the UNIX hosts, but I cannot create a new file.  The djgpp tools
> complain about "ENODEV: no such device".
>
> I am using the tools in rcs5713b.zip.  From the name of the zip file,
> one would think it is patch 13 to rcs-5.7.  However, when I say "rcs -V"
> it tells me rcs-5.7 path 11 softlinks.
>
> I'd appreciate any pointers to resolving this problem, as I'd very much
> like to share our existing rcs archives with Win95 machines.
>
> Matthew H. Gerlach

  I had the same problem a sometime ago with Sun's PC-NFS
The problem is in the libc's stat function which is checking if the
directory exists. Eli Zaretskii solved the problem by sending me
a patch for stat. Don't have it by hand now, it is at work
If you want it I can email it tomorrow.

HTH Bauke

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