Re: CVS, emacs, shh, cygwin

[Mike Ayers]

Seth Copen Goldstein wrote:
> I am having trouble using cvs, emacs, bash, etc. on my windows XP machine.
> My configuration is:
>
> CVS: Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11 (client/server)
> Emacs: GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600)\n of 2002-03-19 on buffy
> Cygwin: not sure version, cygwin1.dll is dated: 2/25/2002
> Ssh: (from cygwin): OpenSSH_3.2.3p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL
> 0x0090604f
>
> I have afs (version 1.2.2b), but would also be ok with using SSH.
> However:
>
> If I can't set a CVSROOT to :local:f:/path (it complains about path not
> being absolute)

	Correct.  Cygwin is a Unix emulation layer, and therefore does not 
recognize DOS drive specifications.  CVSROOT should be 
:local:/cygdrive/f/path.

> I can't set CVS_RSH=SSH, because cvs replies:
> cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if
> any)

        This is probably an artifact of your bad CVSROOT, yes?

> (there are no error messages)

        Don't you get the bad CVSROOT error message?  Wouldn't that count?


/|/|ike