On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 03:05:54PM +0200, Nicolás wrote: > >I'd like to be able to do version control of my Lyx files running on Win > >XP; but I find the manual etc less than clear. > >... > >I did step 1, putting the RCS directoru in C:\lyx\bin which is where > >lyx.exe is. But when I try step 1, I get an error message "ci is not a > >recognised program" etc. > >Should I have installed something else as well? > > > Yes, you have to install an RCS server. I think all you need is here: > http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/trinkle/RCS/ > but I have not tried it. I use the RCS utility that comes with cygwin > (becuase when I installed it I did not know about the website I have > just told you :-( ). Be sure that the rcs.exe file is in the PATH > environment variable. Good luck!
As a sidenote: RCS has been (sort of) superseded by CVS a dozen years ago which in turn is in the process of being superseded by SVN as far as I can tell. Things might be bearable on a single-user system, though. Andre'
