[cvsnt] Re: Confusion with Windows Device Names and Port Numbers when Specifying the Root

[Glen Starrett]

Siegfried Heintze wrote:
> I have created an empty repository and used CVSNT service control panel to
> add the repository C:\CONVEX. (The documentation did not mention this, but
> it seemed like a good idea).
[snip]
> Here is one (of many) attempts from cmd.exe:
> 
> C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs>cvs -d
> :pserver:siegfried at 192.168.0.8:2401:c:/CONVEX login
> 
> cvs login: CVSROOT may only specify a positive, non-zero, integer port (not
> `2401:c:').

You don't need the port since it's default.  You don't need the 
C:/CONVEX stince you specified a repository prefix.

NB:  The repository prefix prepends itself to any repository passed. 
So, if I created a repository in c:\convex\myrepos, and had my 
repository prefix set to c:\convex, I would use:

   :sspi:myserver:/myrepos

to access it.  Note that sspi doesn't require a login, it's the easiest 
to setup and use.

> How do I specify the windows device name so it does not get confused with
> the port number?

You don't need to, that's the point of the repository prefix.  However, 
in general you can do so with // in place of : like so:

   :sspi:myserver:/c//convex/myrepos

-- 
Glen Starrett