Re: Problems with CVS version 1.10.8 on Windows 2000

[Laine Stump]

Please reread Larry's original response and follow his advice (always
use forward slashes in pathnames given to CVS). This:

   cvs -d :local:z:/iil/iswp/data/apt/ISIS/repository co trycvs

should work just fine. The : after z will not be confused by CVS as a
field separator.

P.S. - even in MS' own software, "\\z\" is *NOT* equivalent to
"z:\". The former describes a *machine*, and the latter describes a
*disk* mounted (either locally or remotely) on the local machine.

"Reinstein, Shlomo" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I tried it, it doesn't work either, I get the message:
> cvs [checkout aborted]: CVSROOT \\z\iil\iswp\data\apt\ISIS\repository must
> be an absolute pathname
> 
> How should I specify an absolute pathname that is accessible from my Windows
> 2000 as z:\iil\iswp\data\apt\ISIS\repository? Is it possible that it's a bug
> in version 1.10.8 and that newer versions of CVS do not have this problem?
> (Let me remind you that the original command-line worked on version 1.10.7.)
> 
> Shlomo
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 6:09 PM
> To: Reinstein, Shlomo
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: RE: Problems with CVS version 1.10.8 on Windows 2000
> 
> My guess would be that the colon in the pathname is being interpreted as a
> field
> separator.  Try the following:
> 
> cvs -d :local:\\z\iil\iswp\data\apt\ISIS\repository get trycvs
> 
> <<< Cut some parts >>>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 6:12 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Problems with CVS version 1.10.8 on Windows 2000
> 
> 
> Reinstein, Shlomo writes:
> >
> > What can the problem be? Isn't z:\iil\... an absolute pathname?
> 
> No, it's not.  There are some parts of CVS that insist on forward
> slashes (/) instead of backward slashes (\) and this is one of them.  I
> understand that this is inconvenient for Windows users, but I urge you
> to get used to using forward slashes with CVS or you'll have no end of
> strange problems.
> 
> -Larry Jones
> 
> That's one of the remarkable things about life.  It's never so
> bad that it can't get worse. -- Calvin
> 
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