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+	     Concurrent Versions System (CVS) Version 1.5
+		    ported to Microsoft Windows NT
+			   Cyclic Software
+
+Cyclic Software has ported the client side of CVS 1.5 to Windows NT.
+The port implements the full set of CVS commands, but cannot access
+repositories located on the local machine.  The repository must live
+on another machine (a Unix box, say) which runs a complete port of
+CVS.
+
+Source code for the port is available from Cyclic Software as:
+
+	ftp://ftp.cyclic.com/pub/cvs/windows-nt/cvs-1.5nt.tar.gz
+
+That includes documentation, in Texinfo and PostScript.  It's all
+distributed as a gzipped tar file instead of a .ZIP file because, as
+far as I can tell, PKZIP insists on munging long file names, which
+would confuse the makefile for Visual C++.
+
+To compile, use Microsoft Visual C++ on the file cvsnt.mak in the
+distribution's top directory.  We haven't tested it under any other
+development environments.  If you're curious, see below about the
+warnings you may encounter.
+
+We've put a Windows NT 80x86 executable for CVS in the same directory
+as the source distribution, called cvs.exe.  Full documentation is
+present in PostScript format in the source distribution.  Generally,
+we'd like to avoid spending much time on binary distributions.
+
+Please send bug reports to bug-cvs@prep.ai.mit.edu.  I can't promise
+to fix them --- paying work must come first --- but the reports will
+not be tossed, and I'll see what I can do.
+
+This port passes the test in src/sanity.sh.  (We ran the checks by
+hand, since we couldn't find a port of the Bourne shell good enough to
+execute the script).  Sanity.sh provides pretty minimal feature
+coverage, but still gives me some confidence it isn't totally broken.
+
+For best results, you will also need GNU patch and GZIP installed on
+your system, although CVS can be used without them.  The Congruent
+ports of these packages to Windows NT, binary and source, are
+available in:
+
+	ftp://microlib.cc.utexas.edu/microlib/nt/gnu
+
+At the moment, this port isn't integrated into our mainline CVS
+sources, but I expect that to be straightforward.  I'll get around to
+it soon, but as I said, paying work...
+
+Now, strictly speaking, I don't *know* that this port won't correctly
+access repositories on the local machine.  I haven't tried it.  I
+have put calls to abort in places I'm pretty sure are wrong.  If you'd
+like to finish it off and post patches, Morten Hindsholm's port of CVS
+1.4A2 to Windows NT might be helpful; it is available as
+
+	ftp://ftp.digex.net/pub/access/schueman/cvs/cvsnt14b.zip
+
+
+
+I get the following warnings when compiling this port of CVS 1.5 under
+Microsoft Visual C++.  They are all harmless.
+
+- main.c: This is a very weird warning message!  If you understand
+  what it's trying to say, let me know:
+	'void (__cdecl *)(void)' differs in parameter lists from
+	'void (__cdecl *)(void )'
+  Okay, whatever, man.
+- sighandle.c: These are harmless conflicts in the arguments of
+  pointed-to functions.  You're welcome to submit patches for them.
+- regex.c: These are signed/unsigned comparison conflicts.  I am not
+  going to *touch* this code. :-) I got my fill of it when I was
+  hacking GNU Emacs.
+
+
+
+Jim Blandy <jimb@cyclic.com>
+Sunday, August 20, 1995