Re: .doc file concerns

2001-06-27 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Tuesday, June 26, 2001 at 22:04:23 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ] Subject: Re: .doc file concerns I would be interested in seeing the study. My evidence is purely empirical, having interviewed dozens of professional authors over several years. They all preferred WYSIWYG editors over

RE: .doc file concerns

2001-06-27 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Tuesday, June 26, 2001 at 22:12:24 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ] Subject: RE: .doc file concerns Okay, maybe TeX can produce documents comparable to professional authoring tools such as Frame Maker. It's also a lot cheaper. So why aren't the professionals using it? I've yet to meet

Re: .doc file concerns

2001-06-27 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 07:12:58PM -0500, Thornley, David wrote: If I'm going to write a simple document, I frequently use Word. If I'm going to write something complicated, I use a better tool, such as LaTeX or a real page layout program. Real page layout programs also tend to have binary

configuring cvsweb on linux server

2001-06-27 Thread Sudarshan
hi all i have installed cvs server on my linux box, and clients are using wincvs on windows machines. I now wish to install cvsweb on my cvs server. i downloaded cvsweb and cvswebclient for installtion, and i tried to configure it, but not yet succedded if someone has implemented this, pls let

CVS and updating modules

2001-06-27 Thread Pavel Kalianko
Hi, I have a following problem. I have defined an alias module where I exclude several directories. Checkout goes fine. But when I do cvs update -d then the excluded directories in the module appear again. I know that -d option is supposed to have this behavior. My problem is then to do cvs

Adding files to multiple branches?

2001-06-27 Thread hicking
Hello! I've got a larger project, where the final version and a beta version is constantly updated. I made two branches of the project called final and beta. So when someone is making changes in their beta-working directory, it won't affect the final version. But it often occurs, that we

Exporting without deleting

2001-06-27 Thread William Boileau
Is there any way to do a cvs export without deleting the previous versions in the directories ? Or is there a way to take send revised files in a place where older revisions exists (in non-cvs places, I mean) ? Thanks fo your help. ___ Info-cvs

Conversion from ClearCase

2001-06-27 Thread Robert Jenkins
Is there a utility for importing a ClearCase repository (with its history and metadata) into CVS? I may want to run the two systems in parallel so I'd like import from a date and time perspective. I thought someone may have already crossed this bridge. Thanks, Bob Jenkins

Re: configuring cvsweb on linux server

2001-06-27 Thread Matthew Riechers
Sudarshan wrote: hi all i have installed cvs server on my linux box, and clients are using wincvs on windows machines. I now wish to install cvsweb on my cvs server. i downloaded cvsweb and cvswebclient for installtion, and i tried to configure it, but not yet succedded if someone has

CVS editors problems ??

2001-06-27 Thread Stephen Byers
Has anyone experienced a problem doing a 'cvs edit' on a file and the file not showing up when performing 'cvs editors' ? This has happened to 3 different people in the last few weeks on our project. I am aware that recent versions of CVS would keep track of only one location for editting a

Re: CVS and updating modules

2001-06-27 Thread Rudolf Balada
Hi, I was solving similar problem. How to catch information about update on files on alias. I solved that by storing old working directory, doing "fresh" checkout of the alias and then diffing list of files and diffing files itself. It's not much pretty, but it's working for me and it generates

Re: configuring cvsweb on linux server

2001-06-27 Thread Daniel Beckham
You really need to give us more details. I'm sure thousands of people have sucessfully installed the cvsweb scripts on their web server, but without knowing exactly what your problem is, no one can help you. What errors were you receiving? Have you checked the cvsweb website for installation

Re: CVS and updating modules

2001-06-27 Thread Pavel Kalianko
Hi, This is not a good solution for me. My problem is based on the slow connection between the developer teams and the cvs server. These aliases define necessary things remote developers need and the rest of the cvs tree is optional for them. Doing chekout all the time is not nice on the slow

Re: CVS and updating modules

2001-06-27 Thread Rudolf Balada
Hi, and what about simple checkout of the alias everytime you need an update. It should just update existing files and also create new ones defined in alias. This solution assumes, that you *never* shrink the alias. The alias must stay as it is or can grow, but never shrink. It's needed for

Re: CVS editors problems ??

2001-06-27 Thread Noel L Yap
Have you checked the associated CVS/fileattr file in the repo? Is there a record in there? If so, does it have a syntax error? Do these filenames have any special characters (eg '+')? Noel |+- || | ||

cvs update: cvs server: ignoring . (CVS/Repository missing)

2001-06-27 Thread Heiko Rupp
Hi, I am using Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.1p1 (client/server) on client and server. Both talk over ssh. Platform is RH7.0 with the rpm from cvshome Cvs {import,co,add,commit} work as expected, only cvs update behaves strangely: [heikor@pc-heiko /tmp]$ ls test ls: test: No such

Re: cvs update: cvs server: ignoring . (CVS/Repository missing)

2001-06-27 Thread Matthew Riechers
Heiko Rupp wrote: [heikor@pc-heiko test]$ cvs update -PdA cvs server: ignoring . (CVS/Repository missing) [heikor@pc-heiko tmp2]$ ls -ls CVS total 12 4 -rw-r--r--1 heikor users 83 Jun 27 18:09 Entries 4 -rw-r--r--1 heikor users 17 Jun 27 18:09

Re: CVS editors problems ??

2001-06-27 Thread Colby Allred
There is also a bug (at least, I consider it a bug) where information in the fileattr file is removed when someone does a checkout of the file being 'cvs edit'ed. I've submitted a report to bug-cvs, so maybe it will be fixed in a future release. On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Noel L Yap wrote: Have

Re: CVS and updating modules

2001-06-27 Thread Larry Jones
Pavel Kalianko writes: My problem is then to do cvs update which would still exclude the directories defined in the module. Not using -d option creates another problem. cvs update will not update new directories which were not excluded in the module and were added after chekout. To do

Re: Adding files to multiple branches?

2001-06-27 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes [in extremely long lines]: I made two branches of the project called final and beta. So when someone is making changes in their beta-working directory, it won't affect the final version. But it often occurs, that we have to add a new file to the final-version (via

Re: cvs update: cvs server: ignoring . (CVS/Repository missing)

2001-06-27 Thread Larry Jones
Heiko Rupp writes: [heikor@pc-heiko /tmp]$ ls test ls: test: No such file or directory [heikor@pc-heiko /tmp]$ cvs co test cvs server: Updating test cvs server: Updating test/heikor cvs server: Updating test/heikor/tmp U test/heikor/tmp/bar.c U test/heikor/tmp/foo.c [heikor@pc-heiko

Re: cvs update: cvs server: ignoring . (CVS/Repository missing)

2001-06-27 Thread Heiko Rupp
Larry Jones wrote: Heiko Rupp writes: [heikor@pc-heiko /tmp]$ ls test ls: test: No such file or directory [heikor@pc-heiko /tmp]$ cvs co test Is test defined in your modules file or is it just a directory in the repository? It wasn't at the time of first post, but is now with the same

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I hope this might be useful to someone

2001-06-27 Thread Alexander Kamilewicz
Hi all, I was asked by some of my developers to develop a way to show what's changed between rtags, and in some depth. Now, as you all know, the following: $cvs -q rdiff -s -r $rtag1 -r $rtag2 $modulename Gives you output like this: File module/foo/bar.jpg is removed; not included in release

(no subject)

2001-06-27 Thread Deepak Khugher
Hi, A repository for my project was created some time back. But the development work continued without checking out a working copy from the repository. Also the development work divided into two branches thinking that CVS would help merge at a later stage. Now is there any chance to merge

Re: (no subject)

2001-06-27 Thread Noel L Yap
Merges need three versions to work with -- the two versions you see and their ancestor (eg the version before code branched off). If you have all three: 1. import the original code into the repo 2. checkout the code twice into different sandboxes 3. copy one branch into one sandbox 4. copy the

branching and merging

2001-06-27 Thread Deepak Khugher
Hi, A repository for my project was created some time back. But the development work continued without checking out a working copy from the repository. Also the development work divided into two branches thinking that CVS would help merge at a later stage. Now is there any chance to merge

Links in the repository

2001-06-27 Thread Jeffrey Mease
Title: Links in the repository I currently have a couple of different lines of development open. The most recently opened line of development is going to have some restructing done on it. What I need to know is it possible to use symbolic links in the repository? So I can change the project

Re: (no subject)

2001-06-27 Thread Larry Jones
Deepak Khugher writes: A repository for my project was created some time back. But the development work continued without checking out a working copy from the repository. Also the development work divided into two branches thinking that CVS would help merge at a later stage. Now is there

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cvsweb

2001-06-27 Thread Schwenk, Jeanie
Our sysadmin downloaded cvsweb for me so I could accomodate a couple engineers here. Exactly how does one run this? Yes, this question is devoid of details because I don't know where to start so cvsweb can be utilized. The sysadmin is clueless as well. Yes, I've read the INSTALL and README

Re: Links in the repository

2001-06-27 Thread Larry Jones
Jeffrey Mease writes: I currently have a couple of different lines of development open. The most recently opened line of development is going to have some restructing done on it. What I need to know is it possible to use symbolic links in the repository? So I can change the project

Re: cvsweb

2001-06-27 Thread Daniel Beckham
If all the things you told me are true, then cvsweb is running just fine, you never said there was a problem. Although, I would be quick to say, ViewCVS is a better product in my opinion. You can find details at: http://freshmeat.net/projects/viewcvs/. It requires Python 1.5, BTW. But

Does cvs update return anything?

2001-06-27 Thread Dorthe Luebbert
Hi, I wrote a script in Perl to update a directory tree with several installations of the same cvs module. The script traverses the directory tree, whenever it reaches the searched directory it updates with cvs update. The problem is that the script works fast and the cvs server cannot stand the