[cvsnt] Contribution to Installation Instructions for ViewCVS on Windows

Terris Linenbach nospam at nospam.com
Thu Apr 3 20:47:58 BST 2003


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Oh, even better!  Thanks.

"Tony Hoyle" <tmh at nodomain.org> wrote in message
news:3e79dcd8.181828031 at news.cvsnt.org...
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 18:02:40 -0800, craig_scratchley at shaw.ca wrote:
>
> >Hello.  I'd like to suggest a change to the installation instructions
found at:
> >
> >http://www.devguy.com/fp/cfgmgmt/cvs/viewCVSIIS.htm
> >
> >I saw your name there, so perhaps you can forward this if you cannot make
the change
> >yourself.
> >
> >Instead of:
> >
> >Extract the RCS distribution (you can get the latest RCS at the GNU site)
into a directory in your PATH
> >
> >I suggest:
> >
> >Extract the RCS distribution (you can get the latest RCS at the GNU site)
into a directory in your PATH which does not contain any spaces.  That is,
"c:\Program Files\rcs\" is bad whereas "c:\Executables\rcs\" should be okay.
> >
> TBH I'd rather it pointed to the RCS wrappers that come with CVS - best to
get
> people into the habit of using them now while it's optional rather than
later
> when it becomes mandatory.
>
> Tony
>




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