NT win-CVS cvs 1.11 vs CVS cvs 1.11 under cygwin ( and emacs)

[Richard Burns]

I have two versions of cvs on my nt box that has cygwin on it.
one version ( that came with cygwin) shows the following when I ask
"-v"

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$ cvs -v

Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11 (client/server)

Copyright (c) 1989-2000 Brian Berliner, david d `zoo' zuhn,
                        Jeff Polk, and other authors

CVS may be copied only under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
a copy of which can be found with the CVS distribution kit.

Specify the --help option for further information about CVS
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The other version, that came with win-cvs 1.2 shows the following when asked the same question:
 

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$ "c:/Program Files/Gnu/WinCvs 1.2/cvs" -v

Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11 (client)

Copyright (c) 1989-2000 Brian Berliner, david d `zoo' zuhn,
                        Jeff Polk, and other authors

CVS may be copied only under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
a copy of which can be found with the CVS distribution kit.

Specify the --help option for further information about CVS
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Obviously, the cygwin version is client/server and the win-cvs version is just a client, however they bear the
same release number ( 1.11).

My problem is, that under cygwin a "cvs login" always fails where as the command
 "c:/Program Files/Gnu/WinCvs 1.2/cvs" login
( as quoted above to preserve spaces ) succeeds  as does commit etc.

I only discovered this after trying to unravel why my emacs started in cygwin always died using
c-x c-q on files that had not yet been committed under win-cvs.
 

My reason for posting this here is to try and get some clarity around what I should be doing.
Should i just copy "the working" win-cvs cvs.exe over my cygwin path'd one? ( yeah I know I lose the
'server' ability --- part of my reluctance) or is there a better client/server version that works
sympathetically  with the win-cvs one when I am in "NT" mode?

Finally, does anyone have a link to some good advice on NT / cygwin / emacs / cvs usage?

If it helps, consider me a longtime unix / emacs /  rcs user
struggling in an NT / cvs world.
... richard

P.S. I am not on the mailing list itself, so direct replies are appreciated.
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