From: jeffdb@netzone.com ("Mikey") Subject: Patch for reliable rcs on win95 17 Mar 1997 23:27:19 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199703180307.UAA28492.cygnus.gnu-win32@nz1.netzone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: "cygnus" X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com If you're running NT, you can probably ignore this message, but for other win95/rcs users, this should hopefully prove usefull. I take no responsibility for anything, not even your lousy sex life ;^). The win95 short read bug also affects rcs ci co & company (at least for me). (it even messes up djgpp rcs in a dos box!) I couldn't figure out how to change ReadFile's behaviour, if you do an immediate reread on the file, ReadFile just returns 0 bytes, so instead I just fixed rcs so it keeps the whole file in memory. I hate just fixing the symptoms, but rcs is too good to do without. all filesystems mounted -b (diff is LF only) cd into the rcs-5.7/src directory and apply the included dif. cd .. configure --with-diffutils --prefix=/your_cygnus_rootdir/H-i386-cygwin32 (or wherever diff3.exe lives on your system) make cd src;strip *.exe!!! cp *.exe /usr/H-i386-cygwin32/bin (or wherever) make sure you have an /etc/passwd file similar to the following YOUR_USERNAME::500:500::/your/home/dir:/bin/sh make clean, run rcstest it works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;^) actually I've been using it for about a week, so I know it does (for me). - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".