[cvsnt] Contribution to Installation Instructions for ViewCVS on Windows
Tony Hoyle
tmh at nodomain.org
Thu Mar 20 15:24:31 GMT 2003
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 18:02:40 -0800, craig_scratchley at shaw.ca wrote:
>Hello. I'd like to suggest a change to the installation instructions found at:
>
>http://www.devguy.com/fp/cfgmgmt/cvs/viewCVSIIS.htm
>
>I saw your name there, so perhaps you can forward this if you cannot make the change
>yourself.
>
>Instead of:
>
>Extract the RCS distribution (you can get the latest RCS at the GNU site) into a directory in your PATH
>
>I suggest:
>
>Extract the RCS distribution (you can get the latest RCS at the GNU site) into a directory in your PATH which does not contain any spaces. That is, "c:\Program Files\rcs\" is bad whereas "c:\Executables\rcs\" should be okay.
>
TBH I'd rather it pointed to the RCS wrappers that come with CVS - best to get
people into the habit of using them now while it's optional rather than later
when it becomes mandatory.
Tony
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