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On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 19:15:57 -0500, "Woodrow Stool"
<woodrow at stoolware.com> wrote:
>Hello Glen:
>
>Thank you for your comments. I downloaded the latest version of CVSNT, but
>it appears that it installed the legacy (1.11.x) CVS Unix client as the
How do you know it is the 1.11.x version? Did you run it with the
proper argument to read the version? Or did you rightclick the exe
file and select properties/version?
The argument to use is:
cvs -ver
and it will display this:
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C:\>cvs -ver
Concurrent Versions System (CVSNT) 2.0.11 (client/server)
Copyright (c) 1989-2001 Brian Berliner, david d `zoo' zuhn,
Jeff Polk, and other authors
CVSNT version (Sep 30 2003) Copyright (c) 1999-2003 Tony Hoyle and
others
see http://www.cvsnt.org
CVS may be copied only under the terms of the GNU General Public
License,
a copy of which can be found with the CVS distribution kit.
SSH connectivity provided by PuTTY:
PuTTY is copyright 1997-2001 Simon Tatham.
Portions copyright Robert de Bath, Joris van Rantwijk, Delian
Delchev, Andreas Schultz, Jeroen Massar, Wez Furlong, Nicolas Barry,
Justin Bradford, and CORE SDI S.A.
see http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
Specify the --help option for further information about CVS
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>command line client on my XP box. Trying to invoke "CVSNT" from the command
>line gets "unrecognized command ...." etc, so CVS was the only client app
>that I could invoke. The CVSNT service appears to be running fine.
CVSNT == cvs.exe and it is used as a client by invoking it from the
command prompt with the proper command line arguments. Without
arguments it does nothing at all. Except displaying this message
outlining proper usage:
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C:\>cvs
Usage: cvs [cvs-options] command [command-options-and-arguments]
where cvs-options are -q, -n, etc.
(specify --help-options for a list of options)
where command is add, admin, etc.
(specify --help-commands for a list of commands
or --help-synonyms for a list of command synonyms)
where command-options-and-arguments depend on the specific command
(specify -H followed by a command name for command-specific help)
Specify --help to receive this message
The Concurrent Versions System (CVS) is a tool for version control.
For CVS updates and additional information, see
the CVSNT home page at http://www.cvsnt.org/
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>
>I can fix the path problem (which it must be), but is this an essentially
>(known) problem with the install?
No issue here, if you install the server then the path is adjusted.
You might want to restart just to make sure it "takes".
> Seems like this would trip quite a few newbies up.
Not really, they most often realize that cvs is a command line tool
with no GUI window...
/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)