Bad CVS

Jim binarynut at comcast.net
Fri Sep 24 16:58:17 UTC 2010


  On 09/23/2010 10:03 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> On 09/23/2010 09:31 PM, Jim wrote:
>>    FC 13
>>
>> I copied this line from a website and between the -d an server was a
>> smiley face Icon that screwed up the line, would anyone
>> have any ideal what goes in where the smiley face icon was ?
> Go back with your web browser to the page, and view the page source
> (control-u in firefox) and find out what the original characters were.
> Probably was a character sequence involving a colon and/or a parenthesis
> and maybe a letter or number....
>
> You might also play with your browser's page style and turn it off (no
> style).
>
>> cvs -z3 -d server:anonymous at libwpd.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/libwpd
>> co -P libwpd2
>>
>> Error message:
>> cvs checkout: CVSROOT password specification is only valid for
>> cvs checkout: pserver connection method.
>> cvs [checkout aborted]: Bad CVSROOT:
>> `dserver:anonymous at libwpd.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/libwpd'.
>>
>
Here is line in question in source.
LinuxOuestions has a habit of sticking in a smiley face in place when 
you type a certain character.

<b>cvs -z3 -d<img  src="http://static.linuxquestions.org/questions/images/smilies/tongue.gif  <view-source:http://static.linuxquestions.org/questions/images/smilies/tongue.gif>"border="0"alt=""title="Stick Out Tongue"class="inlineimg"/>server:anonymous at libwpd.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/libwpd co -P libwpd2</b><br  />
<br  />

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