Re: RCS and Win NT4 problem

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From: Paul Groves
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 00:00

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On Tue, 14 Oct 1997 16:53:18 +0000, Tim Clapp <tcc1000@cam.ac.uk>
wrote:

>Paul Groves wrote:
>> 
>> First problem I have is that when I checkout (co) a file, it is
>> write-protected - is this meant to happen? Surely this is the file you
>> want to edit...
>
>But only if you have a lock on it. If you want to edit a file don't you
>need 'co -l' ?
>

Thanks Tim - that does the job, but it does seem bizarre to default to
read-only as standard...I'll have a look in vc.el to see if it's
possible to change this, otherwise it's going to annoy the hell out of
me...

Do you have any ideas about the strange emacs behaviour under Win NT
(it all works as I would expect under Solaris)?

Paul

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From: paul.groves@oucs.ox.ac.uk (Paul Groves)
Subject: Re: RCS and Win NT4 problem
Date: 1997/10/14
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