From: "Frederico Jerónimo" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: RCS Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 12:40:44 -0000 Lines: 41 Message-ID: <90inqt$sjk$1@venus.telepac.pt> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.22.25.241 X-Trace: venus.telepac.pt 976020125 29300 213.22.25.241 (5 Dec 2000 12:42:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse AT mail DOT telepac DOT pt NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Dec 2000 12:42:05 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Actually, there is nothing wrong with the program. It was my mistake... :) The problem is that I didn't know that RCS and other configuration management software needed the diff*.zip files to run. The error 'diff - Unknown signal' was given because the diff.exe file could not be found. I should read the faq more carefully... :) But the documentation for the RCS is not exactly brilliant though.... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- Frederico Jerónimo DarkRealms AT netcabo DOT pt Dark Realms : http://mega.ist.utl.pt/~fjds/ Programming, graphics, medieval & fantasy info, texts & quotations, music... Eli Zaretskii escreveu na mensagem news:Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 1001205114420 DOT 27857B AT is... > > On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, JT Williams wrote: > > > -: I was wondering if anyone uses the DOS port of the RCS utility, for > > -: managing project versions. > > > > The rcs5713b.zip binaries are stale (compiled using djgpp 2.01) this might > > be causing (part of) the problem you describe. FWIW I have been using RCS > > (recompiled from rcs5713s.zip under djgpp 2.03) for some time and have not > > had any problems at all. > > I'm using old v2.01-compiled binaries all the time, and I have yet to > see a single problem. FWIW.