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Thank you all for the responses. Glen hit the nail on the head. Maybe its not a problem :-) John, that sounds like a good approach. I have Cygwin loaded. I wonder if the bash would work too. Thing is I am driving this with a perl script and I think that the system() function calls command.exe. I wonder if there is a way to change that.... Anyway, Thank you all again. __________________________________ Reed Lawson IGT Firmware Engineering (775) 448-0755 > -----Original Message----- > From: John Hall [mailto:john-news1 at cambridgetechgroup.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 6:00 AM > To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook > Subject: Re: [cvsnt] embedding newlines in the -m option. how? > > > "Oliver Giesen" <ogware at gmx.net> wrote in message > news:bj4foh$dv0$1 at sisko.local.nodomain.org... > > > > WinCVS does it somehow for "cvs commit -m "foo\n foo"" right? > > > The problem is that in a console window or batch file the newline > > character is treated as a command delimiter. If you use the > > CreateProcess API to invoke CVS there is no problem embedding line > > feeds (unescaped) in the commandline string and cvs.exe > seems to accept > > this without problems AFAICT. > > > > I haven't looked at the code yet but I assume WinCvs just > displays the > > \n for the command dump and really uses CR LF... > > > > That said, I have no idea how to really do it from the > commandline or a > > batch file and don't know if it is possible at all. > > When I've wanted to embed newlines in comments with cvs admin -m, I've > resorted > to using a version of zsh for Windows > http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/: > > #cvs admin -m1.4:"This is the first line of a comment. > dquote> And a second. > dquote> " file.txt > RCS file: /cvs/module/file.txt,v > done > > Cheers, > John > > > _______________________________________________ > cvsnt mailing list > cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook > http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs >