Here is the e-mail without the control characters . sorry about that. 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) "=8c6=8c7^H\"=88=8c8^H=8c9\"^Y=8ca^H!=88=8cb =8cc^H\n^K%=88=8cd^H=8ce #=88\f=84&^@=8cf=8c5!=88=8c9^U)=8c6=8d0^H\"=87" [file backend rev comment vc-make-backup-files backup-inhibited message "Registering %s... " vc-responsible-backend t vc-file-clearprops vc-call-backend register vc-file-setprop vc-backend make-local-variable "Registering %s... done"] 6]("c:/users/Daniel/Programs/RunLog/RunLog.java" "1.1" "") vc-finish-logentry(t) vc-start-entry("c:/users/Daniel/Programs/RunLog/RunLog.java" "1.1" t nil "Enter initial comment." #[(file rev comment) "=8c6=8c7^H\"=88=8c8^H=8c9\"^Y=8ca^H!=88=8cb =8cc^H\n^K%=88=8cd^H=8ce #=88\f=84&^@=8cf=8c5!=88=8c9^U)=8c6=8d0^H\"=87" [file backend rev comment vc-make-backup-files backup-inhibited message "Registering %s... " vc-responsible-backend t vc-file-clearprops vc-call-backend register vc-file-setprop vc-backend make-local-variable "Registering %s... done"] 6]) vc-register(nil nil) vc-next-action-on-file("c:/users/Daniel/Programs/RunLog/RunLog.java" nil) byte-code("^H=831^@=8c5 ^Y=8c6=8c7!=8c8 L=88=8c9=8ca =8cb#=8cb=98=83!^@=8cc=8cd=89=8ce#=88=82+^@=8cf=8cd=89=89=89=8d0=8cc&=88=8d 1=8d2=8cd\"=88)\n=83<^@=8d3\n!=88=821^@^K=83E^@=8d4^K\f\"=87=8d5=8d6=8d7 \"=87" [vc-dired-mode files vc-parent-buffer buffer-file-name verbose dired-get-marked-files make-local-variable vc-dired-window-configuration current-window-configuration mapconcat #[(f) "^H^Y=8c2 !)=8c3==84 ^@=8c4=87=8c5=87" [f file vc-state up-to-date "^@" ""] 2] "" vc-next-action-dired nil "dummy" vc-start-entry "Enter a change comment for the marked files." throw nogo pop-to-buffer vc-next-action-on-file error "Buffer %s is not associated with a file" buffer-name] 7) vc-next-action(nil) * call-interactively(vc-next-action) I'm not certain that this isn't caused by user error (mine) but at one point I could have sworn RCS was working on this machine through emacs. Recent input: C-x C-f p r o SPC r u n SPC R U u n L o g . j a SPC v SPC C-x C-v C-v C-g C-g C-g C-x v v Recent messages: Loading log-edit... Loading easy-mmode...done Loading log-edit...done Mark set Press C-c C-c when you are done editing. Registering c:/users/Daniel/Programs/RunLog/RunLog.java... Loading debug...done Entering debugger... [2 times] Loading emacsbug...done