On 10/8/2013 20:08, Gary Johnson wrote:
There was a discussion around March 27, 2012, about another change
in the behavior of RCS between 5.7 and 5.8. It appears that someone
decided to make some sweeping "improvements" to RCS and broke a few
things along the way.
GNU rcs 5.7 was released in
On 2013-10-08, Warren Young wrote:
> On 10/8/2013 18:30, Don Hatch wrote:
> >On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 05:48:53PM -0600, Warren Young wrote:
> >>On 10/8/2013 04:22, Don Hatch wrote:
> >>>
> >>>Checking in a text file of size >= 256k
> >>>corrupts the rcs file, irretrievably losing most of the content
On 10/8/2013 18:30, Don Hatch wrote:
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 05:48:53PM -0600, Warren Young wrote:
On 10/8/2013 04:22, Don Hatch wrote:
Checking in a text file of size >= 256k
corrupts the rcs file, irretrievably losing most of the contents
It's documented in the rcs NEWS file:
That quote
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 05:48:53PM -0600, Warren Young wrote:
> On 10/8/2013 04:22, Don Hatch wrote:
> >
> >Checking in a text file of size >= 256k
> >corrupts the rcs file, irretrievably losing most of the contents
>
> It's documented in the rcs NEWS file:
>
> - Env var RCS_MEM_LIMIT control
On 10/8/2013 04:22, Don Hatch wrote:
Checking in a text file of size >= 256k
corrupts the rcs file, irretrievably losing most of the contents
It's documented in the rcs NEWS file:
- Env var RCS_MEM_LIMIT controls stdio threshold.
For speed, RCS uses memory-based routines for files
I recently did this at work by backing up the C:\cygwin directory, my
Windows user profile directory and manually creating the directory
path C:\cygwin\etc\setup, then copying
C:\cygwin\etc\setup\installed.db to the new computer, running the
installer, and changing the install method from "Default"
On 08/10/2013 3:34 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
On 10/8/2013 3:25 PM, David Boyce wrote:
But as a point of practicality, 64-bit Cygwin can help with some
cases of
DLL address space collisions. So if you haven't experimented with
64-bit Cygwin in your environment, it may be worth your time.
On 08/10/2013 2:52 PM, Don Hatch wrote:
I've always been baffled by cygwin setup's behavior.
I wish I understood it and could control it.
Here is a typical example where I want to do something
very simple and I have no idea how to get the setup program
to do it. Help!
My goal: upgrade rcs to t
On 10/8/2013 3:25 PM, David Boyce wrote:
But as a point of practicality, 64-bit Cygwin can help with some cases of
DLL address space collisions. So if you haven't experimented with
64-bit Cygwin in your environment, it may be worth your time.
This sounds very reasonable but I'm curious: is it
> But as a point of practicality, 64-bit Cygwin can help with some cases of
> DLL address space collisions. So if you haven't experimented with
> 64-bit Cygwin in your environment, it may be worth your time.
This sounds very reasonable but I'm curious: is it to date just a
theory that makes sense
On 10/8/2013 2:52 PM, Don Hatch wrote:
So, as far as I can see,
the only way to get rcs 5.8.2-1 is to globally select "Curr"
and *don't click on rcs at all*.
So, to upgrade rcs and nothing else,
I'd have to globally select "Curr"
and manually change every package *except* rcs
to "Keep", leavin
On 08/10/2013 14:53, Jakub Horbacewicz wrote:
I have to use Windows server for making backups of network devices. To
accomplish that I have to run Rancid, so I need to install Cygwin. Can
you help me with compiling Rancid through Cygwin? I cannot find any
tutorial or tips in google.
If you down
I've always been baffled by cygwin setup's behavior.
I wish I understood it and could control it.
Here is a typical example where I want to do something
very simple and I have no idea how to get the setup program
to do it. Help!
My goal: upgrade rcs to the "currently considered most stable"
vers
>
>
> Hi cygwin,
>
> I have found that two lines in /etc/screenrc cause the nano editor to get one
> line off in its text buffer display when running gnu screen in a mintty
> terminal on cygwin64. The two lines are as follows (the ones beginning with
> "termcap" and "terminfo"):
>
> ># Do no
On 08/10/2013 9:53 AM, Jakub Horbacewicz wrote:
Hello,
I have to use Windows server for making backups of network devices. To
accomplish that I have to run Rancid, so I need to install Cygwin. Can
you help me with compiling Rancid through Cygwin? I cannot find any
tutorial or tips in google.
Hop
Hello,
I have to use Windows server for making backups of network devices. To
accomplish that I have to run Rancid, so I need to install Cygwin. Can
you help me with compiling Rancid through Cygwin? I cannot find any
tutorial or tips in google.
Regards.
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