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On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 16:00:00 +0200, thierry.vermeersch at nl.abb.com wrote: > >I'm going to try to find some info on the protocol, but in the meanwhile, >what is the "username:password syntax"? I cannot seem to find any reference >to this syntax? Try 'cvs info pserver' - it'll give you the syntax of the cvsroot for pserver. Basically you can specify the username and password at the same time - it does mean that the password is stored in plaintext in the script, though, so you have to worry about security. >By the way, thanks for your help last week on TAGS. The "Open Source >Development with CVS" >did noy describe the parameters as STDIN, hence the trouble. Thanks again. > That describes Unix CVS, which has a few differences... one of them is how the info files are handled. Tony