Re: RCS and Win NT4 problem

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From: Nathan Hand
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 00:00

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paul.groves@oucs.ox.ac.uk (Paul Groves) writes:

> Has anyone tried using the Windows NT\95 port of GNU RCS?
> ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/devtools/gnu/rcs57pc1.zip 
> 
> 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...

Check out with the lock option, ie "co -l foo". That's standard
RCS behaviour.

-- 
The sticker on the side of the box said "Supported Platforms: Windows 95,
Windows NT 4.0, or better", so clearly Linux was a supported platform.

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From: Nathan Hand <nathan.hand@anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: RCS and Win NT4 problem
Date: 1997/10/16
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