Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 11:10:59 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Matthew H. Gerlach" <gerlach AT netcom DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: initializing RCS files on network drive
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On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Matthew H. Gerlach wrote:

> 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".

Please describe how do you mount that network drive from the Windows95
machines.  Also, please type the following command from the DOS prompt
(in the same DOS box under Windows 95 where you run RCS) and tell what
output does it produce:

	    truename x:\foo\bar

where "x:\foo\bar" is the full path name of the directory where you
are trying to create a new RCS file.

> 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.

Please post the size and the time stamp of your RCS binaries.