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Tony Hoyle wrote: > dzielke at aep.com wrote: > >> When I run CVS Update from the Tortoise interface I get the following >> error: >> >> In C:\CVS_WORK\doc: "C:\Program Files\TortoiseCVS\cvs.exe" "-q" >> "update" "-d" "-P" "CogCafBranchMergeAndTag.doc" >> CVSROOT=:pserver;username=dzielke;hostname=cogcs:/usr/local/cvs >> >> cvs.exe [update aborted]: no such directory >> `:pserver:dzielke at cogcs.aepsc.com:/usr/local' <-- missing last >> part of path! >> >> Error, CVS operation failed >> >> Obviously something is not getting passed properly, but I'm stumped. >> We are running CVSNT 2.0.62.1817 and Tortoise 1.8.13, on WinXP SP2 on >> an Intel laptop, accessing a CVSNT server 2.0.58b on a Red Hat Linux >> server. >> >> I don't get the error through WinCVS. > > > It could be a Tortoise thing, but I've never heard of anything like that > before.. What about the odd cvsroot line? that looks strange to me for the username and host name being set up as parameters instead of part of the string. Is CVSNT misinterpreting the CVSROOT because it isn't in standard format maybe? -- Glen Starrett