Re: [h-e-w] problems with RCS rcsdiff and checkout co.exe in emacs 22.3.1

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:09:39 -0500
> From: "Tolkin, Steve" <address@hidden>
> Cc: <address@hidden>
> 
> 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?