cvs can't parse its arguments -- known issue?

[Matt Armstrong]

"John Morrison" <john.r.morrison@ntlworld.com> writes:

> I've had this - a while ago I think.  Try calling cvs with it's
> full path...
>
> $ /bin/cvs ...

Unfortunately, no luck.  :-(


Randall R Schulz <rrschulz@cris.com> writes:

> I cannot replicate that failure (I get a password prompt).
>
> Are you invoking it from a Cygwin shell, or from CMD.exe (or
> COMMAND.COM?).

Win2k's CMD.EXE and Cygwin's bash give the same result.


> You might want to escape the @ sign, since under certain
> circumstances it's special (i.e., it's a extended shell argument
> processing syntax meant to allow arguments contained in files to be
> incorporated into the command line).

Simply running "cvs a" gives the same error message.  I suppose it is
time to compile from source and debug the problem.

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