I had the same problem when using the CVSRoot as a local protocol. When I redid my cvs setup, cvsnt was configured for pserver. Now WinCVS does the diff correctly.
So I believe that there is something wrong with the diff command when accessing the CVSROOT as LOCAL. John On 27 Mar 2002 14:03:00 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Garvin Hicking) wrote: > Salutations, info-cvs! > > >I am using CVS NT 1.11.1.1 (Local Build 27) for maintaining source control over my >local Windows-Development-files. I used only basic functionality so far (checkouts, >commits and update). Today I had the problem to review an earlier version of a file. >When I use "cvs -n diff -l -r 1.2 <file>" (with existing versions, no matter what >file, no matter what revision) I get the following error: > >cvs [diff aborted]: (start_server internal error): unknown access method > >I can, though, check out files with this revision and use WinDiff for comparing those >files. But I thought that would be builtin-CVS functionality, and it works on my >linux machines. > >Is this a known bug? Am I doing something wrong? _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
