I realize that this question is very specific to our envrionment...but just in case someone else has the similar setup, i decided to post it in here. i am running unix client on a winNt machine...i have cvs 1.10.8 server and WinCVS1.1b15 client on the same machine...i am trying to run a template from verifymsg administrative file. But when i am telling cvs to execute my template with bash *that's the shell we have*, it doesn't know how to automatically switch to unix environment and start the shell...when i create a .bat file that sets up unix env. and starts the shell...i have no way of specifying the template i want to execute, since once it starts the shell, it doesn't execute the rest of my command neither in .bat file, nor in verifymsg...and ideas, suggestions, thoughts are very welcome TIA, Julia