Date:	Sun, 1 Jul 2001 15:54:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"David Witbrodt" <dawitbro AT alpha DOT delta DOT edu>
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Using CVS at home
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On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I suggest to try the troubleshooting procedure described in the CVS
> manual, under "Connection", which tells you how to try to connect with
> a telnet client.  This will tell you if yor ISP blocks some of the
> packets.

  Sorry, Eli, that was an omission on my part -- I had already tried it.
  The results of running "telnet cvs.delorie.com 2401" at work were
positive:  the connection was made and typing "help" gave the expected
error message.
  At home, telnet just sits there -- no crash or other problem, but no
connection either.  I simply don't have enough experience troubleshooting
such problems to know what to make of this, or what cure to administer.
  Do you think that this is conclusive evidence that the ISP is blocking
stuff?  I wonder if it could be my virus protection software -- I haven't
tried it yet, but just now it occured to me that I could try disabling my
virus checker to see if it is blocking things it shouldn't.


> This is the same version I use.  I don't have any problems with it.

  Exactly.  Since it worked fine at my workplace, I had concluded that my
troubles are not the fault of cvs.exe.


Thanks again,
Dave W.

"... for if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass
of human beings ... would learn to think for themselves; and when once they 
had done this, they would sooner or later realize that the privileged 
minority had no function, and they would sweep it away." - Emmanuel Goldstein

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