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- From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
- Subject: Re: Read only files, HPFS, wrong, wrong, wrong
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.235042.13115@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
- Sender: news@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Usenet system)
- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
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- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:50:42 GMT
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- Chris Waters (xtifr@netcom.com) wrote:
- > In <1992Sep10.050559.5642@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
- >
- > >have not checked out of the RCS. Under UNIX it works great, but under the
- > >DOS style (and hence HPFS), you check out a file, but then can not compile
- > >it because it is read only. This is especially painful when using GNUMAKE
- > >(but I'll save that sob story for my next post...)
- >
- > Sounds like a bug in your compiler. What (godforsaken) compiler are you
- > using? I'm using RCS, under DOS & UNIX & now OS/2, and haven't had any
- > problems on any of these platforms...
- >
- > A compiler shouldn't need to do more than read the file--so the fact
- > that the files are read-only shouldn't (and doesn't, with any compiler
- > I've seen) matter.
- >
- > >So, can anybody think of a solution to the RCS problem?
- >
- > Yes. Replace your compiler with one that isn't brain-dead.
-
- Does GCC count? :-)
-
- --
- Tom J Parry.
- Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
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