From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1239 invoked by alias); 20 Apr 2002 22:56:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 1232 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2002 22:56:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO darius.concentric.net) (207.155.198.79) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Apr 2002 22:56:45 -0000 Received: from mcfeely.concentric.net (mcfeely.concentric.net [207.155.198.83]) by darius.concentric.net [Concentric SMTP Routing 1.0] id g3KMuiP25187 ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 18:56:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Clemens.cris.com (da003d0183.sjc-ca.osd.concentric.net [64.1.0.184]) by mcfeely.concentric.net (8.9.1a) id SAA10278; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 18:56:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020420154426.02513f38@pop3.cris.com> X-Sender: rrschulz@pop3.cris.com Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 16:04:00 -0000 To: "George Hester" , cygwin@cygwin.com From: Randall R Schulz Subject: Re: Where is the manual to manually install cygwin in Windiows 2000 In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg01121.txt.bz2 George, What I see is that both pages instruct the user to do a "cvs login" and that's to be expected, since that part of CVS. You don't need to use the Cygwin port of CVS to retrieve file from the cygwin.com CVS server. You can use a Windows native CVS command line or something like WinCVS or jCVS. If you run a Cygwin CVS from a non-Cygwin shell (BASH, ash, tcsh), it will try to create and read the ".cvspass" file in the directory named by the value of the HOME environment variable, so if you try this, make sure that variable is set. I imagine that a Windows native port of the CVS command-line client will the do the same or something very similar. After all, Windows users have home directories, too. GUI CVS clients probably have their own configuration files or registry entries for storing this sort of information. Otherwise, CVS is CVS. The interaction between the client and the server is specified by a protocol, and it doesn't matter which client or server you use, as long as they both properly implement that protocol. It might help you to know that there is no "session" created by a CVS "login" command. That command simply prompts for and verifies the password with the server and then records it (if it's the command line CVS, it does as as I mention above and puts a mildly obscured version of the password into $HOME/.cvspass). Then each subsequent command directed at the same CVS server uses the password that was recorded in the .cvspass file. The CVS command line tool does not start an interactive sub-shell. To my knowledge, the only time it launches other processes is to create an editor for composing check-in or update commentaries. Good luck. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 11:02 2002-04-20, you wrote: >Thanks Robert. I went there. But it looks as though I have to have Cygwin >installed to do this. Let me give you an example: > >On this page: > >http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm > >you will see an example how to get files using CVS. That worked just fine >for me. > >But on this page: > >http://cygwin.com/cvs.html > >the directions say this: > >"Once you've done that, you need to tell your local cvs software what >password to use. The password is the word anoncvs : > >bash$ cvs login." > >As you can see there is a bash shell running. Will I get into a bash shell >automatically upon connecting through CVS or do I need Cygwin installed >first? > >-- >George Hester >_________________________________ >"Robert Collins" wrote in message >news:FC169E059D1A0442A04C40F86D9BA7600C5E9C@itdomain003.itdomain.net.au... >http://cygwin.com/cvs.html > >Rob > >-- >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > > > > > >-- >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/