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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 10:49:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Joaquim Ballabrera <joaquim AT essic DOT umd DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Updated: cvs-1.11.17-1
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On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Joaquim Ballabrera wrote:

> Dear Charles Wilson,
>
> I'm a cygwin user and I have problems using CVS. I'm trying to use the
> following command fron cygwin:
>
> > cvs -d :ext:anoncvs AT savannah DOT gnu DOT org:/cvsroot/gcc co -D 8/25/2004 gcc
>
> The result is
>
> ' from cvs serverning: unrecognized response`ok
>
> and then the program hangs.
>
> The very same command works smoothly in a SGI workstation.

Try piping the result to "cat -A", i.e.,

> cvs -d :ext:anoncvs AT savannah DOT gnu DOT org:/cvsroot/gcc co -D 8/25/2004 gcc 2>&1 | cat -A

You have a ^M (carriage return) character embedded in the output of cvs,
and the cat command will show the full output.

> In both machines I have
>
> setenv CVS_RSH ssh
>
> Question: Do I have to configure CVS in cygwin with any other option?

This should be it.
	Igor
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