Re: [boost] Can't start up CVS. Help!

From: Victor A. Wagner, Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-05 04:00:59

At Wednesday 2002/09/04 23:29, you wrote:
>I've tried looking at the directions at SourceForge, but I'm getting 
>denied.  There are Mac directions only for pre-X Macs, so I tried to adapt 
>the general UNIX directions.  When I tried to enter the command:
>
>>[Daryle-Walkers-Computer:Programming/Boost/BoostCVS] daryle% cvs -z3 
>>-d:ext:dlwalker_at_[hidden]:/cvsroot/boost checkout > boost

"checkout > boost" ???
I've haven't used a Mac in decades, but that ">" certainly looks peculiar.
on unix and windows the > attempts to redirect the standard output someplace
I find it difficult to believe that Apple would have messed up their 
command line syntax so as to interfere with this "almost" standard usage.
try it withOUT the ">"

>I got rejected with:
>
>>cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot exec: No such file or directory
>>cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages 
>>if any)
>
>I did a "setenv CVS_RSH=ssh" before the CVS attempt.  If anyone is using 
>Mac OS X for Boost with CVS, can they help me out (privately)?
>
>Daryle Walker
>Mac, Internet, Video Game Junkie
>darylew_at_[hidden]
>
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