Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3F01B8FD.5000309@halfcooked.com> Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 17:38:21 +0100 From: Andy Todd Organization: Dexter Pinion Appreciation Society User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030625 Thunderbird/0.1a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cvs connecting to a repository on Windows broken? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > It won't work if it isn't Cygwin. > > I don't know the first thing about the NT version of CVS - so I don't know > how you're supposed to indicate the drive letter. > > CVSNT has a site that may be of help, though: > http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki/CvsChapter29 > > > Otherwise, try back-quoting the : > :pserver:andyt AT javsource1:c\:/eglrepository > > > rlc > > On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Andy Todd wrote: > > >>Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: >> >> >>>Is the server a Cygwin CVS? If so, try using /cygdrive/c in stead of c:\ >>> >>>:pserver:andyt AT javsource1:/cygdrive/c/eglrepository >>> >>>HTH >>> >>>rlc >>> >>>NB: if this WAG doesn't help, try providing a bit more info, such as what >>>kind of CVS is running on the Win2000 server >>> >>>On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Andy Todd wrote: >>> >> >>[snip] >> >>Ronald, >> >>Thanks, but sadly no, its CVSNT (1.11.1) >> >> From reading the error messages though I don't think this will work >>either. The error seems to be caused by the ':' which used to seperate >>the server name and the path to the repository but which is now the >>(optional) indicator that what follows is a port number; >> >>:(gserver|kserver|pserver):[[user][:password]@]host[:[port]]/path >> >>I suspect that there is some conflict between unix style paths "/path" >>above and the MS-DOS style required to talk to CVSNT (which includes a >>':' to seperate drive and directory). Or I could be on completely the >>wrong track. >> >>Don't make me install WinCVS ;-) >> >>Regards, >>Andy >> Ronald, Thanks again. I found the answer (eventually) via this posting; http://www.cvsnt.org/pipermail/cvsnt/2002-March/001261.html The correct form (for posterity) is; $ cvs -d:pserver:andyt AT javsource1:/c//eglrepository login etc. Regards, Andy -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From the desk of Andrew J Todd esq - http://www.halfcooked.com/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/