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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 11:24:18 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: cvs can't parse its arguments -- known issue?
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Matt,

What does "type -a cvs" show you (from BASH)? Might you have an alias or 
shell function intervening between the command line and the actual 
invocation of the process?

Also, are you sure you're running Cygwin cvs? Might there be another cvs 
installed on your system?

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 11:17 2002-11-01, Matt Armstrong wrote:
>"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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