Re: [cl-cookbook-contrib] cl-cookbook CHANGELOG,1.10,1.11 index.html,1.12,1.13

[Nick L. <nd...@ra...>]

Hi Edi,

   You're using the "-d:pserver:..." method while Sourceforge wants you
   to use "-d:ext:..." (with CVS_RSH set to "ssh"), this could be it.

Well, I had tried 

 cvs -z3 -d:ext:nic...@cv...:/cvsroot/cl-cookbook co cl-cookbook

and all that happened was that my shell hung. I found some words at
http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_21.html#SEC184, which states:

    Try running the rsh program from the command line. For example: 
        "rsh servername cvs -v" 
    should print CVS version information. If this
    doesn't work, you need to fix it before you can worry about CVS
    problems.

(But it doesn't say how to fix the problem...)

So, I tried 

 rsh cvs.cl-cookbook.sourceforge.net  -l nicklevine  cvs -v

(and the same without the "-l" option) and in both cases got:

 rsh.exe: can't establish connection
 -> usw-pr-cvs.sourceforge.net:Connection refused

FTR, can anybody else connect by that route?

---

Anyway, the problem in the end turned out to be my combination of
Cygwin bash shell in emacs on NT. When I run in cmd / bash outside
emacs, :ext: connections don't hang and everything works.

One for the books.

- nick