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?

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