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diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/windows-NT/README b/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/windows-NT/README index 057320e0bb7..b86a28601d4 100644 --- a/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/windows-NT/README +++ b/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/windows-NT/README @@ -3,10 +3,12 @@ Cyclic Software Check the ../INSTALL file for information on the most recent version -of CVS which has been known to be tested with NT. +of CVS which has been known to be tested with NT and/or Win95. This port implements the full set of CVS commands, both local and -client. It does not provide a CVS server for NT. +client. It does not provide a CVS server for NT. Multiple users can +access a common CVS repository, if they can mount the repository, +either directly or via a networked file system. We don't distribute a .ZIP source distribution partly because, as far as I can tell, PKZIP insists on munging long file names, which would @@ -28,11 +30,14 @@ limitation in the NT command shell. sanity.sh provides pretty minimal feature coverage, but still gives me some confidence it isn't totally broken. -To operate in client mode, you will need GNU patch. gzip is useful -but not required. +To operate in client mode, you will need GNU patch. To do compressed +transfers with old versions of CVS (1.8 and older), you also need +gzip. Note that you do NOT need an rsh client if you are using the +:server: access method (which uses the internal rsh client), except +perhaps for debugging. -To operate in local mode, you will need GNU patch, GNU diffutils, a -version of grep, and rcs version 5.7 installed on your system. Make +To operate in local mode, you will need GNU patch, GNU diffutils, +and rcs version 5.7 installed on your system. Make sure NOT to get a version of rcs less than 5.7 (gr564bnt.zip was particularly bad), because those versions insist on putting their files in their own directory structure, making them incompatible with @@ -41,13 +46,14 @@ CVS. Noel Cragg, who did the latest mods to the Windows NT port, used the following packages: - ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/ibmpc/gnuish/grep15.zip - ** use grepb.exe and egrepb.exe, but install as - ** grep.exe and egrep.exe respectively) ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/ibmpc/gnuish/patch212.zip ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/al/alexande/rcs57nt.zip ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/al/alexande/diff57nt.zip +Copies of these zip files can be also be found at: + + ftp://ftp.cyclic.com/pub/cvs/cvs-1.8.3/windows-nt + If you want to try other versions of these utilities, you might have luck with the Congruent ports of these packages to Windows NT, binary and source: @@ -66,11 +72,6 @@ you're modifying CVS itself: ftp://ftp.digex.net/pub/access/schueman/cvs/cvsnt14b.zip -Mark A. Solinski <markso@www.mcs.net> has ported CVS 1.7 to Windows -95. You can find his source code at: - - http://www.mcs.net/~markso/cvs/cvs95.html - Here are some other things which may be of interest for unix junkies: http://www.halcyon.com/gvr/vim/ (VI clone) |