[cvsnt] Re: Taginfo call cannot handle & character in argument list or module name....

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Sun Aug 15 02:09:15 BST 2004


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Bo Berglund wrote:
> I forgot to mention that CVSNT outputs this strange message after
> calling the taginfo script with the erroneous argument (the program
> called by taginfo first executes):
> 
> cvs server: Pre-tag check failed
> 'Drive' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> 
> Seems like CVSNT cuts off the part after the & and tries to execute
> that as a kind of program of sorts....

& is special to NT and it's impossible to escape it...  There's no known 
workaround.

Tony



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