[cvsnt] Re: Unknown escape character '\P' ignored

Glen Starrett grstarrett at cox.net
Wed Jun 1 06:58:37 BST 2005


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Greg Norris wrote:
> I recently installed Wincvs 2.0.0.2 (build2)  and the new version of
> cvsnt along with it. It all works fine except..We now get the following
> when commiting or tagging a file..
>  
> cvs -z9 tag -- PATCH_770 dbo.rep_int_poll_afile.PRC (in directory
> C:\Documents and Settings\me\My
> Documents\patches_1\ReportGateway\Procs\)
> Unknown escape character '\P' ignored.
> Unknown escape character '\C' ignored.
> Unknown escape character '\C' ignored.
> Script execution failed

Your *info scripts (in CVSROOT within your repository) aren't using the 
'new' required escaping method.  You need to either replace \ with / (as 
in paths c:/foo/bar/blah) or with \\ (c:\\foo\\bar\\blah).


-- 
Glen Starrett



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