Well, I guess I expected it to do... something. After about five minutes I get a message saying it timed out. I'll try it again tonight.
73s, Eric KF4OTN Curt, WE7U wrote: > On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Eric Christensen wrote: > >> My second problem was with getting the Xastir files from SourceForge. >> When I used CVS and hit "enter" at the "CVS password" prompt nothing >> would happen. > > What did you expect to happen? If I remember correctly it waits a > while and then writes something into your ~/.cvspass file, then > exits. I don't think it tells you anything unless it _can't_ > complete the operation. > > Go on to the next command. There are only two commands to do total > to get the sources. > > If the first command hangs and doesn't bring you back to a prompt > within a reasonable amount of time, it may be that the remote server > is down or slow, or there's a problem somewhere in-between on the > network. Kill it (Control-C) and try again. If no luck after a few > tries, wait an hour or a day and try again. > > Once you get that first command done, you'll never have to do it > again on that machine, as that user. > > -- > Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer > "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown > "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U > "The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir