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Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 14:37:04 +0100 (BST)
From: Carl Hetherington <cth AT carlh DOT net>
X-Sender: cth103 AT glenlivet DOT ohm DOT york DOT ac DOT uk
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: CVS problem
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On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Carl Hetherington wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a CVS repository in d:/cth103/CVS that I set up with a DOS port of
> CVS.  I've recently installed cygwin, so I thought I'd try using the copy
> of cvs.exe in there.
> 
> I have linked my D: drive into cygwin using
> mount -b D: /d
> 
> Now from a DOS prompt if I try
> cvs -d :local:/d/cth103/CVS diff Makefile
> 
> I get
> ' is missing '=' error in /d/cth103/CVS/CVSROOT/config: line '
> /#cvs.lock): No such file or directoryory for `/d/cth103/CVS/3d
> 'VS diff: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/d/cth103/CVS/3d
> CVS [diff aborted]: read lock failed - giving up

Its alright, it seems to be a big mess caused by the different line
endings used by the DOS version.  I'm beginning to get it straightened out
now.  Dear Mr. Gates,  Why oh why oh why ... ;-)

Sorry to bother you all
Carl



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