Re: CVS on Win98

Thanks - setting HOME environment is what CVS need! Now it works!!!

Kind regards,

Vladimir.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>
To: <www-lib@w3.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: CVS on Win98


> >>>>> "Vladimir Kozlov" <Vladimir.Kozlov@idm.ru>:
> 
> > Sorry for this stupid question but are there some difficulties with
> > CVS on Win98? I've just move to new computer with Win98 and all that
> > I got is:
> 
> > D:\Projects\libwww\cvs>cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@dev.w3.org:/sources/public
> > login (Logging in to anonymous@dev.w3.org) CVS.EXE [login aborted]: could not
> > find out home directory: No such file or directory
> 
> > On NT everything is OK...
> 
> Hm... NT has a concept of home directory.  Win95/98 doesn't.
> 
> The first thing I would try to find out, is where CVS looks for the
> .cvspass file when it doesn't have a home directory.
> 
> If I couldn't find any information about this, I would try setting the 
> HOME environment variable to point to the NT home directory in the
> autoexec.bat file.  If that didn't work, I would try putting the
> .cvspass file in C:\.
> 
> If that didn't work either, I would be fresh out of ideas...:-)
>

Received on Wednesday, 9 June 1999 04:38:21 UTC