Problems with RCS 5.7 on Windows XP (within emacs)

[Gabriel R. Toro]

Hi,

I use rcs 5.7 in windows (from within emacs 20.7.1), and I have two 
problems.  The first may be more emacs than rcs related.  My apologies if 
this is the case.


The first one is that if I exit emacs before checking in the file I am 
editing, then the next time I try to edit the file, emacs tells me that 
another user (which happens to be myself) has the file locked for 
editing.  I have to go through the routine of notifying myself that I stole 
the lock.  Is there a way to avoid this nonsense?

The second question relates to the RCS_LF_ONLY environment setting.  About 
half of my editing of source files in Windows is with files that were 
originally created in Unix machines and still have only LF at the end of 
the line.  The other half are files created in Windows (with CR-LF).  I am 
currently using RCS_LF_ONLY=something and it appears that the *,v files for 
Windows source files contain copies of every version of the entire file, 
instead of just differences.  Is there a way to get rcs to handle both file 
types efficiently?  Also, I cannot seem to find the place where this option 
is documented.

Thanks,

Gabriel