CVSROOT must be an absolute pathname problem

[Mark Scoville]

On the command line, I get the following problem:

GANDALF:/cygdrive/c> cvs init
cvs init: CVSROOT must be an absolute pathname (not
`c:/cygwin/home/Mark/src/master')
cvs init: when using local access method.
cvs [init aborted]: Bad CVSROOT: `:local:c:/cygwin/home/Mark/src/master'.

My environment looks like this:

  OS: Windows XP Pro
  Bash version 2.05b.0(8)-release
  Cvs version 1.11.2
  export CVSROOT=:local:c:/cygwin/home/Mark/src/master

I am also using wincvs version 1.2. This seems to function properly, but I
miss my command line immensely.

Any thoughts?

Mark Scoville
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