files get corrupted on Windows
directory to be in CygWin
binary mode, by mounting it onto
in the Cygwin system, and configure
, as described in WindowsInstallCookbook
Symptom: Diffs output is blank
When the RCS
files were not in binmode, any editing of the existing TWiki topics, e.g. WebHome
, would create a usable .txt file, and update the RCS
file, but the
script used for the Diffs and '>' links would not work.
In fact, every edit of an existing topic would end up corrupting the RCS
file by adding CR characters, resulting in the following message in the Apache error log (e.g.
) - these messages actually indicate a corrupt RCS
[Fri Feb 22 20:47:19 2002] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] co: c:/twiki/data/Know/WebPreferences.txt,v:103: edit script
refers to line past end of file
[Fri Feb 22 20:47:19 2002] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] co aborted
[Fri Feb 22 20:47:19 2002] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] rcsdiff: c:/twiki/data/Know/WebPreferences.txt,v: co failed
Symptom: Blank lines added on every Edit
This can be seen by re-editing a topic - on every edit new blank lines are seen, due to extra CRs being added. This is just another symptom of this problem (assuming you have ruled out specific browser issues that required a TWiki patch, but these did not affect IE5 or Mozilla).
- 24 Feb 2002