Re: some questions about cvs

[Mike Pumford]

> 
> I am new for CVS. I install a cvs1-11 for Win98 and I use it as command 
> line client to connect to CVS server following the command below:
>
> cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden:/usr/cvs/dav4j login
>
> the error message I got is below:
> (Logging in to address@hidden)
> CVS.EXE [login aborted]: could not find out home directory
> How should I figure it out? Thanks 
You need to set the evironment variable HOME to the name of a directory 
on your machine in AUTOEXEC.BAT. Adding a line like:
set HOME=C:\

will do that. When you log into a CVS pserver CVS 
needs to create a file to kep the login details in. Unix programs use 
the home directory to store per user configuration.

Mike

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