Josh,

I am trying to get the HWPF code to write/read doc files. The website
described going to: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/poi/trunk/src/scratchpad/

I was using the command: svn co
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/poi/trunk/src/scratchpad/ scratchpad but I just
tried what you suggested and it did work. I was able to go there via a web
browser but how did you find this:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/trunk?

-Phil


On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Josh Micich <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Phil,
>
> In general, if you only need the 'latest release' or any release, you can
> follow the links from
> http://poi.apache.org/
>
> I guess the reason you are trying to use SVN is that you need access to the
> very latest main-line (hopefully to help contribute ; )
>
> From what I understand, 'ViewVC' is a web based interface to svn:
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/poi/trunk/
> I use it for browsing, but not much else.
>
> What command are you using to do the checkout?  For example:
> svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/trunk myLocalTrunk
> The total size of an svn checkout for POI is ~140M in 14,000 files, so this
> command might take a few minutes.
>
> I generally don't build scratchpad all by itself, but I guess you could if
> you have the other POI jars available.  I just tried this checkout and it
> worked OK (~36M, 2200 files):
> svn co
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/trunk/src/scratchpadmyLocalScratchpad
>
>
> If you have a unix-like OS, 'svn' may already be installed.  I use the one
> available with cygwin.  Alternatively, you can work with TortoiseSVN, which
> is a shell-extension gui that provides a wrapper for much of the
> functionality available on the command line.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Josh
>

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