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Subject: Re: cvs can't parse its arguments -- known issue?
References: <OIENKAGCMBEDKDHGANIKCECMCJAA DOT john DOT r DOT morrison AT ntlworld DOT com>
From: Matt Armstrong <matt AT lickey DOT com>
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 12:17:28 -0700
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"John Morrison" <john DOT r DOT morrison AT ntlworld DOT com> writes:

> I've had this - a while ago I think.  Try calling cvs with it's
> full path...
>
> $ /bin/cvs ...

Unfortunately, no luck.  :-(


Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com> writes:

> I cannot replicate that failure (I get a password prompt).
>
> Are you invoking it from a Cygwin shell, or from CMD.exe (or
> COMMAND.COM?).

Win2k's CMD.EXE and Cygwin's bash give the same result.


> You might want to escape the @ sign, since under certain
> circumstances it's special (i.e., it's a extended shell argument
> processing syntax meant to allow arguments contained in files to be
> incorporated into the command line).

Simply running "cvs a" gives the same error message.  I suppose it is
time to compile from source and debug the problem.

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