From: earnie_boyd@hotmail.com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: RE: CVS with remote access ? 24 Sep 1997 21:02:54 -0700 Message-ID: <19970925034245.19833.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: David.Billinghurst@riotinto.com.au, gnu-win32@cygnus.com Cc: bischoff@ise.com >Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 08:42:18 +1000 >From: "Billinghurst, David" >Subject: RE: CVS with remote access ? >To: "'gnu-win32@cygnus.com'" >Cc: "'bischoff@ise.com'" > >I recently put binaries for rcs-5.7 and cvs-1.9 on >http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/8328 >If I ever start an FAQ it should include > >Problem: > >CVS gives errors like: > CVS.EXE checkout: Your CVSROOT is set for a remote access method > CVS.EXE checkout: but your CVS executable doesn't support it > CVS.EXE checkout: (c:\cvsroot\reductn) > CVS.EXE [checkout aborted]: Bad CVSROOT > >Cause: > >The environment variable CVSROOT has a colon ":" in it >For example CVSROOT=c:\cvsroot\reductn > >Solution > >Remove the colon. For example CVSROOT=\cvsroot\reductn > Make those foward slashes if you set them from BASH, like this: CVSROOT=/cvsroot/reductn. Otherwise you will end up with CVSROOT=cvsrootreductn. - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd@hotmail.com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".