Hello Richard,
at first: I am not working with Windows XP, I am using Linux instead.
All I write may be wrong on Windows.
> I open a lyx file of mine (called prova1.lyx) from my work directory
> (c:\documents\richard\lyxfiles) and try to use the verison control from
> the lyx file menu.(File-> version control) I usually get a window called
> REGISTER, and so I put a comment in (for instance, "first version") and
> close. The LYX dos window carries an error message which reads
> ci: RCS/prova1.lyx : no such file or directory
That's a little good, it's an error message from the RCS, so your RCS
installation seems to work. The bad thing: It is an error message, and
the text of the message is not helpful for a "normal" user. And the
slash as directory separator instead of your system-standard backslash
is an additional source of misunderstanding.
The RCS system was intended to be used by programmers for source code,
and so there is nearly nothing automatically done. That's okay for
programmers, but in your case it's confusing and bad.
Normally, the repository for the version control is stored in a
directory named RCS in the _document's directory_. But this RCS
directory is _not_ created automatically. Try to create the directory
C:\documents\richard\lyxfiles\RCS
and the version control should work.
It would be nice if LyX could create this directory automatically if it
doesn't exist, but this feature should be suggested to the developer
list.
Have fun!
Elias
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