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Siegfried Heintze wrote: > Since I just went thru hell because of some glaring problems with the > documentation (specifically the cvsnt chm file) I'm not at all saying the docs are not in need of improvement/update but I wonder what exactly those glaring problems you had were? AFAICT from the discussion so far your main (sole?) problem was that you were mixing Cygwin and CVSNT clients which as we now know won't work as Cygwin simulates *ix-file system behaviour while CVSNT knows it's running on Windows and expects files to behave like that too. The only allusion you made to the docs in this context so far was that you were using the Cygwin bash because the docs were continually referring to Unix-style paths and shell syntax. Maybe this would be a bit more comprehensible if you understand about the history of that document: It was forged directly from the original "Cederqvist", i.e. the standard manual for the original CVS which AFAIK was written when CVS still ran on Unix only. After all CVSNT does run on *ix too so none of that is actually wrong. What's missing in many places of the doc are extended descriptions of Windows-specific stuff and differences or at least hints to the effect that the shell syntax and standard paths would be slightly different there or at least a clear note saying that all the examples refer to *ix. > perhaps I should volunteer > to correct them. You are of course more than welcome to do so, even though I'm still not sure there's anything to "correct". "Enhance" and "complete" would be more like it I think. Cheers, -- Oliver ---- ------------------ JID: ogiesen at jabber.org ICQ: 18777742 (http://wwp.icq.com/18777742)