[cvsnt] Confusion with Windows Device Names and Port Numbers when Specifying the Root

[Siegfried Heintze]

I'm new to CVS and nothing seems to be working.

I'm going nuts trying to understand the syntax for specifying CVSROOT for a
windows server being accessed by a windows command line client!  (I have
also tried WinCVS and I cannot get that to work either -- it seems be
experiencing the same problems).

I have created an empty repository and used CVSNT service control panel to
add the repository C:\CONVEX. (The documentation did not mention this, but
it seemed like a good idea).
 

I've tried using cygwin BASH and just plain old cmd.exe (dos command line)
to login and nothing seems to work!
 

Here is one (of many) attempts from cmd.exe:

C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs>cvs -d
:pserver:siegfried at 192.168.0.8:2401:c:/CONVEX login

cvs login: CVSROOT may only specify a positive, non-zero, integer port (not
`2401:c:').

cvs login: Perhaps you entered a relative pathname?

cvs [login aborted]: Bad CVSROOT:
`:pserver:siegfried at 192.168.0.8:2401:c:/CONVEX'.

 
How do I specify the windows device name so it does not get confused with
the port number?

I captured more of my failed attempts at
http://decisionchannel.revealsystems.net/cvshints.htm 


 Thanks,

    Siegfried