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* invoking rcs from emacs on vfat
@ 2005-08-24 22:55 Patrick Drechsler
  2005-08-25 17:02 ` Kevin Rodgers
       [not found] ` <mailman.5021.1124990366.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Patrick Drechsler @ 2005-08-24 22:55 UTC (permalink / raw)


Hi,

for simple ascii files I use RCS invoked from Emacs
(vc-next-action: `C-x v v'). This works fine on linux file
systems (i.e. ext2/3). When the file is located on a vfat
partition it doesn't work as expected. To reproduce the error:

On a linux system open emacs with:

patrick@trurl:~$ emacs -q --no-site-file &

then open a file (`C-x C-f') junk.txt enter something and save it
(`C-x C-w /myvatmount/junk.txt') on a _vfat partition_. After
saving the file I would like to execute vc-next-action (`C-x v
v'; this works with a linux file system as expected). No matter
if I answer the following question (whether to create a RCS
subdirectory) with "yes" or "no" I end with the following error:

,----
| RCS/junk.txt,v  <--  junk.txt
| initial revision: 1.1
| ci: RCS/junk.txt,v: Operation not permitted
| ci: saved in RCS/,junk.txt,
`----

The vfat partition is mounted with "umask=000". 

Appears to be a case sensitive problem since the directory
created is named "rcs" and not "RCS". Is there a workaround for
this?

,----[ system info: ]
| Linux trurl 2.6.10-5-386
| RCS version 5.7
`----

,----[ emacs info: ]
| In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.6.4)
|  of 2005-06-24 on trurl
| X server distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.60802000
| configured using `configure '--with-gtk''
| 
| 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: de_DE.UTF-8
|   locale-coding-system: utf-8
|   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
| 
| Major mode: Lisp Interaction
`----

TIA

Patrick
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