Re: [Jscheme-user] bug in source download instructions

[Ken A. <kan...@bb...>]

At 09:08 AM 1/7/2003, Jonathan A Rees wrote:

>I followed the instructions at
>http://jscheme.sourceforge.net/jscheme/doc/userman.html@downloadcvs,
>and experienced the following:
>
>    jar@rosebud:~$ cvs -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/jscheme login
>    (Logging in to ano...@cv...)
>    CVS password: 
>
>    jar@rosebud:~$ cvs -z3:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/jscheme co jscheme

This line should start
cvs -z3 -d:pserver

>    cvs checkout: No CVSROOT specified!  Please use the `-d' option
>    cvs [checkout aborted]: or set the CVSROOT environment variable.
>    jar@rosebud:~$ 
>
>Not knowing anything about CVS, I then flailed about:
>
>    jar@rosebud:~$ export CVSROOT=/tmp/cvs
>    jar@rosebud:~$ mkdir /tmp/cvs
>    jar@rosebud:~$ cvs -z3:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/jscheme co jscheme
>    cvs [checkout aborted]: /tmp/cvs/CVSROOT: No such file or directory
>    jar@rosebud:~$ mkdir /tmp/cvs/CVSROOT
>    jar@rosebud:~$ cvs -z3:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/jscheme co jscheme
>    cvs checkout: cannot find module `jscheme' - ignored
>    jar@rosebud:~$ 
>
>Can you help?
>
>Thanks
>Jonathan
>(who is trying to use Jscheme at Millennium Pharmaceuticals for
>miscellaneous scripting)
>
>(and by the way, when I tried to run cvs across the company's firewall,
>it went south, so I had to do it on my home machine.)
>
>
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