Re: RCS on Windows
Alan Isaac wrote: On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Michael Wojcik wrote: I'd avoid GNU RCS for Windows. I've seen it corrupt working files numerous times. Perhaps relevant: http://www.uvm.edu/~ashawley/rcs/faq.txt No, these are actual bugs in either RCS or GNU diff. I've worked with RCS since the late 1980s; I ported it to DOS, OS/2, and OS/400. I'm very familiar with how it works. -- Michael Wojcik
Re: RCS on Windows
Alan Isaac wrote: On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Michael Wojcik wrote: I'd avoid GNU RCS for Windows. I've seen it corrupt working files numerous times. Perhaps relevant: http://www.uvm.edu/~ashawley/rcs/faq.txt No, these are actual bugs in either RCS or GNU diff. I've worked with RCS since the late 1980s; I ported it to DOS, OS/2, and OS/400. I'm very familiar with how it works. -- Michael Wojcik
Re: RCS on Windows
Alan Isaac wrote: On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Michael Wojcik wrote: I'd avoid GNU RCS for Windows. I've seen it corrupt working files numerous times. Perhaps relevant: http://www.uvm.edu/~ashawley/rcs/faq.txt No, these are actual bugs in either RCS or GNU diff. I've worked with RCS since the late 1980s; I ported it to DOS, OS/2, and OS/400. I'm very familiar with how it works. -- Michael Wojcik
Re: RCS on Windows
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Michael Wojcik wrote: I'd avoid GNU RCS for Windows. I've seen it corrupt working files numerous times. Perhaps relevant: http://www.uvm.edu/~ashawley/rcs/faq.txt Cheers, Alan Isaac
Re: RCS on Windows
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Michael Wojcik wrote: I'd avoid GNU RCS for Windows. I've seen it corrupt working files numerous times. Perhaps relevant: http://www.uvm.edu/~ashawley/rcs/faq.txt Cheers, Alan Isaac
Re: RCS on Windows
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Michael Wojcik wrote: > I'd avoid GNU RCS for Windows. I've seen it corrupt > working files numerous times. Perhaps relevant: http://www.uvm.edu/~ashawley/rcs/faq.txt Cheers, Alan Isaac
Re: RCS on Windows
André Bonhôte wrote: I am in a process of convincing my team mates to use LyX for documentation. The guys all use windows. I'm not really a windows man, thus the question: What RCS do you recommend? I have downloaded the zip file from the gnu site and copied all the bins to C:\windows, but LyX didn't see the binaries. Next, I have added this dir to the path in the prefs, but still now luck. I'd avoid GNU RCS for Windows. I've seen it corrupt working files numerous times. I don't think I've ever seen it damage RCS files, so a fresh checkout generally got me a good working file, but I don't trust it. (I can't imagine what the problem is. I ported RCS - Tichy's original version, not GNU, which IIRC didn't even exist at the time to 16-bit Windows myself years ago - along with DOS, OS/2, and OS/400 - and never had any problems with file corruption.) I use CVSNT for versioning my LyX files. I haven't bothered trying to drive it from LyX - I just run it manually, from the command line, the way Computers Are Supposed To Be Used :-). But CVSNT does include a co.exe, rcsdiff.exe, etc. It doesn't seem to have a bare ci alias, but a short Windows .cmd file that did a cvs update followed by a cvs commit ought to do the job. (Obviously, the user would have to manually handle any conflicts that couldn't be resolved automatically.) So I'd expect it would be possible to get LyX to work with CVSNT, if you want to use the file-versioning features built into LyX. -- Michael Wojcik
Re: RCS on Windows
André Bonhôte wrote: Hi First I want to thank Uwe for pointing out the embedded objects doc. Cool, really! I am in a process of convincing my team mates to use LyX for documentation. The guys all use windows. I'm not really a windows man, thus the question: What RCS do you recommend? I have downloaded the zip file from the gnu site and copied all the bins to C:\windows, but LyX didn't see the binaries. Next, I have added this dir to the path in the prefs, but still now luck. IMHO, there is not much advantage to have RCS capability integrated into LyX. If I were you I would just use SVN and use TortoiseSVN for windows people. TortoiseSVN is integrated with the shell, is very easy to use and works really well. Abdel.
Re: RCS on Windows
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I am in a process of convincing my team mates to use LyX for documentation. The guys all use windows. I'm not really a windows man, thus the question: What RCS do you recommend? I have downloaded the zip file from the gnu site and copied all the bins to C:\windows, but LyX didn't see the binaries. Next, I have added this dir to the path in the prefs, but still now luck. IMHO, there is not much advantage to have RCS capability integrated into LyX. If I were you I would just use SVN and use TortoiseSVN for windows people. TortoiseSVN is integrated with the shell, is very easy to use and works really well. I agree with Abdel - TortoiseSVN works well, and once it's set up it's really easy to use. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: RCS on Windows
André Bonhôte wrote: I am in a process of convincing my team mates to use LyX for documentation. The guys all use windows. I'm not really a windows man, thus the question: What RCS do you recommend? I have downloaded the zip file from the gnu site and copied all the bins to C:\windows, but LyX didn't see the binaries. Next, I have added this dir to the path in the prefs, but still now luck. I'd avoid GNU RCS for Windows. I've seen it corrupt working files numerous times. I don't think I've ever seen it damage RCS files, so a fresh checkout generally got me a good working file, but I don't trust it. (I can't imagine what the problem is. I ported RCS - Tichy's original version, not GNU, which IIRC didn't even exist at the time to 16-bit Windows myself years ago - along with DOS, OS/2, and OS/400 - and never had any problems with file corruption.) I use CVSNT for versioning my LyX files. I haven't bothered trying to drive it from LyX - I just run it manually, from the command line, the way Computers Are Supposed To Be Used :-). But CVSNT does include a co.exe, rcsdiff.exe, etc. It doesn't seem to have a bare ci alias, but a short Windows .cmd file that did a cvs update followed by a cvs commit ought to do the job. (Obviously, the user would have to manually handle any conflicts that couldn't be resolved automatically.) So I'd expect it would be possible to get LyX to work with CVSNT, if you want to use the file-versioning features built into LyX. -- Michael Wojcik
Re: RCS on Windows
André Bonhôte wrote: Hi First I want to thank Uwe for pointing out the embedded objects doc. Cool, really! I am in a process of convincing my team mates to use LyX for documentation. The guys all use windows. I'm not really a windows man, thus the question: What RCS do you recommend? I have downloaded the zip file from the gnu site and copied all the bins to C:\windows, but LyX didn't see the binaries. Next, I have added this dir to the path in the prefs, but still now luck. IMHO, there is not much advantage to have RCS capability integrated into LyX. If I were you I would just use SVN and use TortoiseSVN for windows people. TortoiseSVN is integrated with the shell, is very easy to use and works really well. Abdel.
Re: RCS on Windows
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I am in a process of convincing my team mates to use LyX for documentation. The guys all use windows. I'm not really a windows man, thus the question: What RCS do you recommend? I have downloaded the zip file from the gnu site and copied all the bins to C:\windows, but LyX didn't see the binaries. Next, I have added this dir to the path in the prefs, but still now luck. IMHO, there is not much advantage to have RCS capability integrated into LyX. If I were you I would just use SVN and use TortoiseSVN for windows people. TortoiseSVN is integrated with the shell, is very easy to use and works really well. I agree with Abdel - TortoiseSVN works well, and once it's set up it's really easy to use. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: RCS on Windows
André Bonhôte wrote: I am in a process of convincing my team mates to use LyX for documentation. The guys all use windows. I'm not really a windows man, thus the question: What RCS do you recommend? I have downloaded the zip file from the gnu site and copied all the bins to C:\windows, but LyX didn't see the binaries. Next, I have added this dir to the path in the prefs, but still now luck. I'd avoid GNU RCS for Windows. I've seen it corrupt working files numerous times. I don't think I've ever seen it damage RCS files, so a fresh checkout generally got me a good working file, but I don't trust it. (I can't imagine what the problem is. I ported RCS - Tichy's original version, not GNU, which IIRC didn't even exist at the time to 16-bit Windows myself years ago - along with DOS, OS/2, and OS/400 - and never had any problems with file corruption.) I use CVSNT for versioning my LyX files. I haven't bothered trying to drive it from LyX - I just run it manually, from the command line, the way Computers Are Supposed To Be Used :-). But CVSNT does include a "co.exe", "rcsdiff.exe", etc. It doesn't seem to have a bare ci alias, but a short Windows .cmd file that did a cvs update followed by a cvs commit ought to do the job. (Obviously, the user would have to manually handle any conflicts that couldn't be resolved automatically.) So I'd expect it would be possible to get LyX to work with CVSNT, if you want to use the file-versioning features built into LyX. -- Michael Wojcik
Re: RCS on Windows
André Bonhôte wrote: Hi First I want to thank Uwe for pointing out the embedded objects doc. Cool, really! I am in a process of convincing my team mates to use LyX for documentation. The guys all use windows. I'm not really a windows man, thus the question: What RCS do you recommend? I have downloaded the zip file from the gnu site and copied all the bins to C:\windows, but LyX didn't see the binaries. Next, I have added this dir to the path in the prefs, but still now luck. IMHO, there is not much advantage to have RCS capability integrated into LyX. If I were you I would just use SVN and use TortoiseSVN for windows people. TortoiseSVN is integrated with the shell, is very easy to use and works really well. Abdel.
Re: RCS on Windows
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I am in a process of convincing my team mates to use LyX for documentation. The guys all use windows. I'm not really a windows man, thus the question: What RCS do you recommend? I have downloaded the zip file from the gnu site and copied all the bins to C:\windows, but LyX didn't see the binaries. Next, I have added this dir to the path in the prefs, but still now luck. IMHO, there is not much advantage to have RCS capability integrated into LyX. If I were you I would just use SVN and use TortoiseSVN for windows people. TortoiseSVN is integrated with the shell, is very easy to use and works really well. I agree with Abdel - TortoiseSVN works well, and once it's set up it's really easy to use. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
RCS on Windows
Hi First I want to thank Uwe for pointing out the embedded objects doc. Cool, really! I am in a process of convincing my team mates to use LyX for documentation. The guys all use windows. I'm not really a windows man, thus the question: What RCS do you recommend? I have downloaded the zip file from the gnu site and copied all the bins to C:\windows, but LyX didn't see the binaries. Next, I have added this dir to the path in the prefs, but still now luck. FYI: I used lyx-144-2-bundle.exe to install LyX, worked like a charm :-) TIA André André Bonhôte Systems Engineer COLT Telecom AG Mürtschenstrasse 27 CH-8048 Zürich Switzerland Tel: +41 (0)58 560 15 01 Internal OneDial: 8-411-0501 Fax: +41 (0)58 560 2501 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.colt.net Data | Voice | Managed Services PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
LyX crashes. Windows, 1.4.3 (was: RCS on Windows)
Hi It's really a pity that LyX/Win doesn't work as good as LyX/Mac ... got a crash today, reproducable: 1 - Create a new document 2 - Activate Change Tracking 3 - Write some lines 4 - Accept all changes 5 - Write some more lines 6 - Repeat steps 4 5 7 - Boom. See the screenshots here: http://flickr.com/photos/rclkrtrzckr/sets/ 72157594549712498/ (FlickR is dead slow at the moment, please be patient.) Actually, I stepped back to 1.4.3 from 1.4.4 because the latest version crashed when I wanted to go to Document - Settings - LaTeX Preamble in one of my existing documents. I didn't track this further, just installed 1.4.3 :-/ I am not happy at all with this. I'm in the middle of a LyX Promo Tour right now, I have to convince my bosses and team mates. But I can't with these crashes. I have promised RCS, because it works on my Mac, but it doesn't on Win. That's not really good. Which one is the most stable version of LyX? Would it make sense to go for 1.3.x? Cheers André On 21.02.2007, at 12:19, André Bonhôte wrote: Hi First I want to thank Uwe for pointing out the embedded objects doc. Cool, really! I am in a process of convincing my team mates to use LyX for documentation. The guys all use windows. I'm not really a windows man, thus the question: What RCS do you recommend? I have downloaded the zip file from the gnu site and copied all the bins to C:\windows, but LyX didn't see the binaries. Next, I have added this dir to the path in the prefs, but still now luck. FYI: I used lyx-144-2-bundle.exe to install LyX, worked like a charm :-) TIA André André Bonhôte Systems Engineer COLT Telecom AG Mürtschenstrasse 27 CH-8048 Zürich Switzerland Tel: +41 (0)58 560 15 01 Internal OneDial: 8-411-0501 Fax: +41 (0)58 560 2501 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.colt.net Data | Voice | Managed Services André Bonhôte Systems Engineer COLT Telecom AG Mürtschenstrasse 27 CH-8048 Zürich Switzerland Tel: +41 (0)58 560 15 01 Internal OneDial: 8-411-0501 Fax: +41 (0)58 560 2501 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.colt.net Data | Voice | Managed Services PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
RCS on Windows
Hi First I want to thank Uwe for pointing out the embedded objects doc. Cool, really! I am in a process of convincing my team mates to use LyX for documentation. The guys all use windows. I'm not really a windows man, thus the question: What RCS do you recommend? I have downloaded the zip file from the gnu site and copied all the bins to C:\windows, but LyX didn't see the binaries. Next, I have added this dir to the path in the prefs, but still now luck. FYI: I used lyx-144-2-bundle.exe to install LyX, worked like a charm :-) TIA André André Bonhôte Systems Engineer COLT Telecom AG Mürtschenstrasse 27 CH-8048 Zürich Switzerland Tel: +41 (0)58 560 15 01 Internal OneDial: 8-411-0501 Fax: +41 (0)58 560 2501 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.colt.net Data | Voice | Managed Services PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
LyX crashes. Windows, 1.4.3 (was: RCS on Windows)
Hi It's really a pity that LyX/Win doesn't work as good as LyX/Mac ... got a crash today, reproducable: 1 - Create a new document 2 - Activate Change Tracking 3 - Write some lines 4 - Accept all changes 5 - Write some more lines 6 - Repeat steps 4 5 7 - Boom. See the screenshots here: http://flickr.com/photos/rclkrtrzckr/sets/ 72157594549712498/ (FlickR is dead slow at the moment, please be patient.) Actually, I stepped back to 1.4.3 from 1.4.4 because the latest version crashed when I wanted to go to Document - Settings - LaTeX Preamble in one of my existing documents. I didn't track this further, just installed 1.4.3 :-/ I am not happy at all with this. I'm in the middle of a LyX Promo Tour right now, I have to convince my bosses and team mates. But I can't with these crashes. I have promised RCS, because it works on my Mac, but it doesn't on Win. That's not really good. Which one is the most stable version of LyX? Would it make sense to go for 1.3.x? Cheers André On 21.02.2007, at 12:19, André Bonhôte wrote: Hi First I want to thank Uwe for pointing out the embedded objects doc. Cool, really! I am in a process of convincing my team mates to use LyX for documentation. The guys all use windows. I'm not really a windows man, thus the question: What RCS do you recommend? I have downloaded the zip file from the gnu site and copied all the bins to C:\windows, but LyX didn't see the binaries. Next, I have added this dir to the path in the prefs, but still now luck. FYI: I used lyx-144-2-bundle.exe to install LyX, worked like a charm :-) TIA André André Bonhôte Systems Engineer COLT Telecom AG Mürtschenstrasse 27 CH-8048 Zürich Switzerland Tel: +41 (0)58 560 15 01 Internal OneDial: 8-411-0501 Fax: +41 (0)58 560 2501 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.colt.net Data | Voice | Managed Services André Bonhôte Systems Engineer COLT Telecom AG Mürtschenstrasse 27 CH-8048 Zürich Switzerland Tel: +41 (0)58 560 15 01 Internal OneDial: 8-411-0501 Fax: +41 (0)58 560 2501 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.colt.net Data | Voice | Managed Services PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
RCS on Windows
Hi First I want to thank Uwe for pointing out the embedded objects doc. Cool, really! I am in a process of convincing my team mates to use LyX for documentation. The guys all use windows. I'm not really a windows man, thus the question: What RCS do you recommend? I have downloaded the zip file from the gnu site and copied all the bins to C:\windows, but LyX didn't see the binaries. Next, I have added this dir to the path in the prefs, but still now luck. FYI: I used lyx-144-2-bundle.exe to install LyX, worked like a charm :-) TIA André André Bonhôte Systems Engineer COLT Telecom AG Mürtschenstrasse 27 CH-8048 Zürich Switzerland Tel: +41 (0)58 560 15 01 Internal OneDial: 8-411-0501 Fax: +41 (0)58 560 2501 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.colt.net Data | Voice | Managed Services PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
LyX crashes. Windows, 1.4.3 (was: RCS on Windows)
Hi It's really a pity that LyX/Win doesn't work as good as LyX/Mac ... got a crash today, reproducable: 1 - Create a new document 2 - Activate Change Tracking 3 - Write some lines 4 - Accept all changes 5 - Write some more lines 6 - Repeat steps 4 & 5 7 - Boom. See the screenshots here: http://flickr.com/photos/rclkrtrzckr/sets/ 72157594549712498/ (FlickR is dead slow at the moment, please be patient.) Actually, I stepped back to 1.4.3 from 1.4.4 because the latest version crashed when I wanted to go to Document -> Settings -> LaTeX Preamble in one of my existing documents. I didn't track this further, just installed 1.4.3 :-/ I am not happy at all with this. I'm in the middle of a LyX Promo Tour right now, I have to convince my bosses and team mates. But I can't with these crashes. I have promised RCS, because it works on my Mac, but it doesn't on Win. That's not really good. Which one is the most stable version of LyX? Would it make sense to go for 1.3.x? Cheers André On 21.02.2007, at 12:19, André Bonhôte wrote: Hi First I want to thank Uwe for pointing out the embedded objects doc. Cool, really! I am in a process of convincing my team mates to use LyX for documentation. The guys all use windows. I'm not really a windows man, thus the question: What RCS do you recommend? I have downloaded the zip file from the gnu site and copied all the bins to C:\windows, but LyX didn't see the binaries. Next, I have added this dir to the path in the prefs, but still now luck. FYI: I used lyx-144-2-bundle.exe to install LyX, worked like a charm :-) TIA André André Bonhôte Systems Engineer COLT Telecom AG Mürtschenstrasse 27 CH-8048 Zürich Switzerland Tel: +41 (0)58 560 15 01 Internal OneDial: 8-411-0501 Fax: +41 (0)58 560 2501 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.colt.net Data | Voice | Managed Services André Bonhôte Systems Engineer COLT Telecom AG Mürtschenstrasse 27 CH-8048 Zürich Switzerland Tel: +41 (0)58 560 15 01 Internal OneDial: 8-411-0501 Fax: +41 (0)58 560 2501 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.colt.net Data | Voice | Managed Services PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
