Re: Problem with 'cvs login'

Brian Dessent wrote: [snip] If you are providing write (commit) access then you should not use pserver, it sends passwords in plaintext. Use ssh. It's even simpler to setup because sshd uses the built in windows user accounts, whereas CVS pserver requires you to maintain a seperate set of

Re: system() fails on pristine Windows systems

Archie Warnock wrote: [snip] It seems obvious to me that system() is not finding a command interpreter on the machine, Exactly! although they are correctly listed in the path for the command window. Am I missing something really stupid that needs to be included in the distribution or set

Re: system() fails on pristine Windows systems

Archie Warnock wrote: [snip] So, what would be the right way to call an external program from a Cygwin program without installing Cygwin, if not system()? I don't know if it works but I would try to use popen(), there's also exec() and all it's relatives. I also find it somewhat puzzling