From: David DOT Billinghurst AT riotinto DOT com DOT au (Billinghurst, David) Subject: RE: CVS with remote access ? 24 Sep 1997 16:10:04 -0700 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain To: "'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com'" Cc: "'bischoff AT ise DOT com'" I recently put binaries for rcs-5.7 and cvs-1.9 on http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/8328 If I ever start an FAQ it should include Problem: CVS gives errors like: CVS.EXE checkout: Your CVSROOT is set for a remote access method CVS.EXE checkout: but your CVS executable doesn't support it CVS.EXE checkout: (c:\cvsroot\reductn) CVS.EXE [checkout aborted]: Bad CVSROOT Cause: The environment variable CVSROOT has a colon ":" in it For example CVSROOT=c:\cvsroot\reductn Solution Remove the colon. For example CVSROOT=\cvsroot\reductn +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (Mr) David Billinghurst Comalco Research Centre PO Box 316, Thomastown, Vic, Australia, 3074 Phone: +61 3 9469 0642 FAX: +61 3 9462 2700 Email: David DOT Billinghurst AT riotinto DOT com DOT au It's not my speeling that's the trouble. It's just taht I can't tipe. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".