From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26148 invoked by alias); 1 Nov 2002 19:24:10 -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 26107 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2002 19:24:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO darius.concentric.net) (207.155.198.79) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 Nov 2002 19:24:09 -0000 Received: from mcfeely.concentric.net (mcfeely.concentric.net [207.155.198.83]) by darius.concentric.net [Concentric SMTP Routing 1.0] id gA1JO5u28876 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 14:24:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from Clemens.cris.com (da003d0467.sjc-ca.osd.concentric.net [64.1.1.212]) by mcfeely.concentric.net (8.9.1a) id OAA18286; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 14:24:04 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20021101112252.02b58c90@pop3.cris.com> X-Sender: rrschulz@pop3.cris.com Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 11:24:00 -0000 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Randall R Schulz Subject: Re: cvs can't parse its arguments -- known issue? In-Reply-To: <87n0otaylz.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-SW-Source: 2002-11/txt/msg00028.txt.bz2 Matt, What does "type -a cvs" show you (from BASH)? Might you have an alias or shell function intervening between the command line and the actual invocation of the process? Also, are you sure you're running Cygwin cvs? Might there be another cvs installed on your system? Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 11:17 2002-11-01, Matt Armstrong wrote: >"John Morrison" writes: > > > I've had this - a while ago I think. Try calling cvs with it's > > full path... > > > > $ /bin/cvs ... > >Unfortunately, no luck. :-( > > >Randall R Schulz writes: > > > I cannot replicate that failure (I get a password prompt). > > > > Are you invoking it from a Cygwin shell, or from CMD.exe (or > > COMMAND.COM?). > >Win2k's CMD.EXE and Cygwin's bash give the same result. > > > > You might want to escape the @ sign, since under certain > > circumstances it's special (i.e., it's a extended shell argument > > processing syntax meant to allow arguments contained in files to be > > incorporated into the command line). > >Simply running "cvs a" gives the same error message. I suppose it is >time to compile from source and debug the problem. -- 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/