On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Joaquim Ballabrera wrote: > Dear Charles Wilson, > > I'm a cygwin user and I have problems using CVS. I'm trying to use the > following command fron cygwin: > > > cvs -d :ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/gcc co -D 8/25/2004 gcc > > The result is > > ' from cvs serverning: unrecognized response`ok > > and then the program hangs. > > The very same command works smoothly in a SGI workstation.
Try piping the result to "cat -A", i.e., > cvs -d :ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/gcc co -D 8/25/2004 gcc 2>&1 | cat -A You have a ^M (carriage return) character embedded in the output of cvs, and the cat command will show the full output. > In both machines I have > > setenv CVS_RSH ssh > > Question: Do I have to configure CVS in cygwin with any other option? This should be it. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/