Running the GUI version of emacs with the -Q flag does produce the problem. (I know that -Q was effective because I did not see the splash screen and none of the changes from my init file were visible.)
When I right-click on rcsdiff.exe and co.exe in the Windows Explorer, and select Properties there is no Program tab. I do not know for sure what version these RCS files are. I think they are pure Gnu version, back when files compiled for Windows were made available. I think they are for windows, not for DOS, e.g. see first line from strings below. Running strings on rcslib.dll produces these lines (and lots of other junk that I omitted) !This program cannot be run in DOS mode. $Id: rcssyn.c,v 5.15 1995/06/16 06:19:24 eggert Exp $ $Id: rcsgen.c,v 5.16 1995/06/16 06:19:24 eggert Exp $ $Id: rcsedit.c,v 5.19 1995/06/16 06:19:24 eggert Exp $ $Id: rcskeys.c,v 5.4 1995/06/16 06:19:24 eggert Exp $ $Id: rcsmap.c,v 5.3 1995/06/16 06:19:24 eggert Exp $ $Id: rcsrev.c,v 5.10 1995/06/16 06:19:24 eggert Exp $ $Id: rcsutil.c,v 5.20 1995/06/16 06:19:24 eggert Exp $ $Id: rcsfnms.c,v 5.16 1995/06/16 06:19:24 eggert Exp $ 5.7 Note that one output line from strings is "5.7" which I suspect s the version number. Running strings on rcsdiff produced 2 lines with eggert: $Id: rcsbase.h,v 5.20 1995/06/16 06:19:24 eggert Exp $ $Id: rcsdiff.c,v 5.19 1995/06/16 06:19:24 eggert Exp $ but nothing that matched "5\." Running strings on co.exe and rcs.exe are like that for rcsdiff.exe; 2 lines by eggert and no matches of "5\." Thanks, Steve -----Original Message----- From: Eli Zaretskii [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 2:30 PM To: Tolkin, Steve Cc: help-emacs-windows@gnu.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [h-e-w] problems with RCS rcsdiff and checkout co.exe in emacs 22.3.1 > Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:09:39 -0500 > From: "Tolkin, Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The problem only occurs when I start emacs using the mouse: Start | > Programs | Gnu Emacs | Emacs > The Properties for the last node above says in part: > C:\emacs\bin\runemacs.exe > Which is the right place. What if you add the -Q switch to the command line in the properties of that shortcut? does the problem still happen? > One possible cause of the problem is that I first unzipped the > installation into c:\emacs-22.3 > and then ran the addpm.exe program in bin. When I decided things were > working OK I renamed the top directory to c:\emacs and then run addpm > again. I don't think this should matter. > Eli also asked: But the files inside the RCS/ subdirectory do have the > ,v suffix, right? > > The files in my RCS directory do NOT end with ",v". Is that a clue? I > might have done something a long time ago to prevent that, but I cannot > find anyplace. There is no environment variable that seems relevant > and I do not seem to have any files like rcs.ini or .rcs etc. But maybe > there is some such configuration file. Any ideas about that? The same idea I already mentioned: what port of RCS are you using? Can it, by chance, be an old DOS port? What do you see if you right-click on rcsdiff.exe and co.exe in the Windows Explorer, and select Properties? -- do you see a Program tab there?
