[darcs-users] Bug 784, the "removeFile: permission denied" error, reason is solved.

Kari Hoijarvi hoijarvi at me.wustl.edu
Wed Apr 30 22:17:28 UTC 2008


It's about http://bugs.darcs.net/issue784

In windows, type darcs --help and you might get "removeFile: permission 
denied" error.

The reason is you don't have less.exe anywhere. Darcs puts the help text 
thru less.

Workaround until fix:
- install cygwin.
- If 500 MB download to show a text file is too much for you, look for 
"more.com" in your winnt directory, and duplicate it as less.exe 
anywhere in path.

In another note: I'm using darcs 1.0.9 on windows. Are there windows 
users using darcs 2.0.0 + 19 patches from 
http://zooko.com/darcs/darcsdir-w32-2.0.0.zip? Good time to upgrade?

Kari






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