RE: Problems with CVS version 1.10.8 on Windows 2000

[Reinstein, Shlomo]

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

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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

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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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