At 19:48 -0500 3/8/00, Sean Levy wrote:
>I'm a long-time cvs user, and have used it on just about every Unix known
>to man. My standard modus operandi is cvs over ssh, since I keep my
>repositories on a machine that only allows ssh connections, and generally
>from somewhere behind a firewall.
>
>I'm now trying to set up a reasonable development environment under
>MacOS 9. I've got XEmacs and MPW, and grabbed MacCvs. I have
>both niftytelnet and F-Secure ssh clients. I cannot figure out
>how to get MacCvs to use either ssh client to connect to my server.
>I have never used the cvs pserver stuff, just plain old cvs over ssh
>(i.e. CVS_RSH=ssh). I'm clearly missing some essential clue: anyone know
>what it is? A quick search on egroups.com for the archives of this list
>doesn't turn up anything that describes this.
>
>I also plan on installing LinuxPPC on this thing eventually so that I can
>do both generic Unix development in addition to native MacOS stuff, and
>I suppose I could do something like just use cvs/ssh on the Linux side and
>store the files in a partition common to both OSes, but this is super
>clunky.
There is a tech note on how to do this with Perforce at
<http://www.perforce.com/perforce/technotes/note022.html>
I gather that a similar trick will work with MacCVS although I have
not tried it.
HTH,
- rmgw
http://www.electricfish.com/hawkfish/
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