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Re: cvs can't parse its arguments -- known issue?
"John Morrison" <john.r.morrison@ntlworld.com> 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 <rrschulz@cris.com> 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.
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