Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 15:06:58 +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 Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Matthew H. Gerlach wrote:

> For completeness, I am using Maestro's NFS client on the PC, and we are
> working with SunOS and SCO (OS5) servers.  From the PC, I can mount
> the NFS drives in one of two ways.  One way is via the "Network Neighborhood"
> where I can "map" the drive.  The otherway is via a Maestro tool.

Does the problem happen regardless of the way you mount the drive?

What about long file names--does your NFS client support them?  In any
case, try to set LFN=y and see if the problem goes away.  If it
doesn't, set LFN=n and try again.

> After the initial mount, my pc seems to remount the drive automatically.
> When I use the "map" command, the networked drives show up as "local" drives.
> When I "truename K:\foo\bar" on the full path of the rcs directory, the
> command simply returns what I gave it, except in all caps.

Thanks for the info, but unfortunately it doesn't help me to unlock
your problem.  Maybe the questions above will help find the reason.
If not, I'd appreciate if you could download the RCS source
distribution, build it on your machine with the -g switch, and run it
under a debugger to find out which library function call fails.  Armed
with that information, I can then instruct you how to debug this
problem further.

> Eli also wanted specifics on my actual binaries.  I grabbed rcs5713b.zip
> from ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp.  A "pkunzip -v" gave
> the following information about the file:

These are the latest binaries, AFAIK.  So we probably have a new
NFS-related problem on our hands.  Sigh...