Thanks Elias! That worked, and got me a little further on. Now I have a completely different error message, which reads c: The TZ environment variable is not set; please set it to yout timezone ci aborted
I get the same error even if I go to a DOS window, and do SET TZ=BST001 for my time zone, which is UCT+1. Should I be setting this variable some other way? Thanks Richard Elias Schwerdtfeger wrote: >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 > > >
