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Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 12:59:34 -0400
From: "David Witbrodt" <dawitbro AT alpha DOT delta DOT edu>
Organization: Delta College
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Using CVS at home
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> No, the speed of the connection has nothing to do with this.  I
> routinely use CVS from a Windows 98 machine sitting behind a 33Kb
> modem, and I don't have any problems.
> 
> So please post the details: what CVS client do you use, how did you
> set it (environment variables etc.), and what error message(s) do you
> get when you try to login.

I don't get an error message per se.  When I try to run "cvs login" to
set up the ".cvspass" file I simply get "login aborted" because it
"cannot connect: Socket not connected".  No other programs that use
the internet give me any trouble -- netterm, netscape, hyperterminal,
a variety of usenet readers that I've toyed with, etc.  It seems like
there is some Windows setting that is whacked, but all of these other
thingss run OK.

Here is the other info you asked about:


First line of output from "cvs --version":

    Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.10 `Halibut' (client)

This is the Windows version of CVS that the cvs page recommended.  At
work it runs on a Win95 system with a Pentium I 133MHz chip.


Environment settings from autoexec.bat:

    SET PATH=C:\DAVE\DJGPP\BIN;C:\DAVE\DJGPP\CVS;%PATH%
    SET DJGPP=C:\DAVE\DJGPP\DJGPP.ENV
    SET CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous AT cvs DOT delorie DOT com:/cvs/djgpp
    SET HOME=C:\DAVE\DJGPP\CVS\HOME

I keep the files in "c:\dave" as a minimal form of suit-avoidance,
since I'm doing this at work and tech people sometimes come in and
update Windows packages, etc.  I didn't want to keep anything
important in the root dir (i.e., "HOME=C:\").

As a reminder, everything worked absolutely fine with these settings
at work.  I typed "cvs login", and the ".cvspass" file was created;
then I typed "cvs -z3 get djgpp" and a new dir named "djgpp" was
created in the current dir and all of the files were transferred from
DJ's server.

At home, I use the same version of cvs, running on a Win98 system with
a Pentium III 500MHz chip.  My environment is almost the same:

    SET PATH=C:\DJGPP\BIN;C:\DJGPP\CVS;%PATH%
    SET DJGPP=C:\DJGPP\DJGPP.ENV
    SET CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous AT cvs DOT delorie DOT com:/cvs/djgpp
    SET HOME=C:\DJGPP\CVS\HOME

The main difference, as you can see, is that I don't use the "dave"
directory.


Thanks for helping with this,
Dave W.