Matt Harp wrote: > > What does the "/c//" do that "c:" couldn't?
The colon is a field separator in CVSROOT, hence vanilla CVS clients get confused when the path contains a colon. As a work-around, the cvsnt server converts "//" to a colon to support non-cvsnt clients that cannot use a colon in the repository path. Please read the documentation! For example: http://www.cvsnt.org/readme.nt > For some reason, when I connect to the server using the pserver line you > suggested, I can't use absolute paths to reference the CVS files. Better don't use absolute paths. Absolute paths make little sense because, in general, the location of your local workspace is unrelated to the repository location. > cvs -d :pserver:harpm@HARPM:/c//cvs_root log c:\myproj\mysubproj\sub1.txt > > gives me an error of, > > absolute pathname `c:/myproj/mysubproj' illegal for server As above, your CVS client probably doesn't like the colon in the path. In this case you shouldn't be using an absolute path anyway. > If I connect with a -d c:\cvs_root the absolute paths work fine. Please, don't do this. With this command line your client is directly working with the repository, bypassing the CVS server. There is lots of documentation available about CVS in general (e.g. (http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/ and http://www.cvshome.org/docs/), and cvsnt specificly (e.g. http://www.devguy.com/fp/cfgmgmt/cvs/cvs_admin_nt.htm and http://www.cvsnt.org). Joachim -- work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (http://www.netacquire.com) private: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (http://www.kraut.ca) _______________________________________________ Cvsnt mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt
