To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Subject: error trying to get a file into RCS --text follows this line-- This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation, not to your local site managers! Please write in English, because the Emacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. Your bug report will be posted to the bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list, and to the gnu.emacs.bug news group. In GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2004-03-10 on NYAUMO configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.2)' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: ENU locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1 default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: I created a RCS directory in the same directory of a file, RunLog.java, that I wanted to place into RCS and got a failure message. Here is the backtrace info: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Running ci...FAILED (status 1)") signal(error ("Running ci...FAILED (status 1)")) error("Running %s...FAILED (%s)" "ci" "status 1") vc-do-command(nil 0 "ci" "c:/users/Daniel/Programs/RunLog/RunLog.java" "-i" "-u1.1" "-t-" nil nil) apply(vc-do-command nil 0 "ci" "c:/users/Daniel/Programs/RunLog/RunLog.java" "-i" "-u1.1" "-t-" (nil nil)) vc-rcs-register("c:/users/Daniel/Programs/RunLog/RunLog.java" "1.1" "") apply(vc-rcs-register ("c:/users/Daniel/Programs/RunLog/RunLog.java" "1.1" "")) vc-call-backend(RCS register "c:/users/Daniel/Programs/RunLog/RunLog.java" "1.1" "") #[(file rev comment) "ÆÇ\"ˆÈÉ\"Ê!ˆË Ì\n %ˆÍÎ #ˆ\f„&