[cvsnt] Bug with CVSNT, Emacs, and multi-line log messages

[Christopher J. Madsen]

Tony Hoyle writes:
 > Christopher J. Madsen wrote:
 > 
 > > I added some debugging code to record the parameters to the Emacs
 > > call-process function.  Here's what happens when I type C-x C-q to
 > > check in my changes:
 > > 
 > >  (call-process "cvs" nil t nil "ci" "-mLine 1\nLine 2\nLine 3\n"
 > >  "junk.cpp")
 > > 
 > > But CVSNT acts like it was called like this:
 > > 
 > >  (call-process "cvs" nil t nil "ci" "-mLine 1")
 > >
 > That sounds about right.  The command processor strips the first layer of
 > quotes before it parses it.  Emacs should put the whole command line in
 > quotes to avoid the first layer of parsing by cmd.exe.
 > 
 > It's possible RCS is being called differently (is it a DOS or Cygwin app? 
 > They are treated differently).

I'm using the GNU RCS 5.7 which I got from 
  ftp://ftp.cs.purdue.edu/pub/RCS/rcs57pc1.zip

It's not a DOS app, and I don't think it's a Cygwin one either (it
certainly doesn't link to the cygwin DLL).

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