Steve, When a 'cvs commit' is invoked without the -m option, an editor is started to create the message. Which editor is started is determined (in order of priority) by the -e flag, the CVSEDITOR environment variable, the VISUAL environment variable, and the EDITOR environment variable. Please check what the values of these varaibles are (if they are set). In case none of these variables are set, cvs invokes the system default editor (i.e. 'vi'). Please see whether you have a non-cygwin vi in your path (by running 'which vi' or 'bash -c "type -a vi"'). Igor
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Steve Kelem wrote: > I'm running cvs 1.11 on Windows 2000, and the latest cygwin inside tcsh > 6.11.00. > If I run "cvs commit" from tcsh, it runs a bit, and then brings up a popup: > > 16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem > The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction. > CS:00cf IP:0514 OP:ff ff 00 00 98 Choose 'Close' to terminate the > application. > > If I click on "Ignore", I get two more popups (clicking on "Ignore" each > time), > then I get the message: > Log message unchanged or not specified > a)bort, c)ontinue, e)dit, !)reuse this message unchanged for remaining dirs > Action: (continue) > > So, cvs appears not to like not having a message specified ("-m" flag), > but it's a rather rude way of telling me. > > Steve Kelem -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51 -- 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/