Re: Getting the latest cvs version (was Re: tn5250 0.17.1 crash on"graphics" data)

Hi,

The following command get's me the latest version:

cvs checkout tn5250

I think that you only need to specify a branch if you want the OLD code.

Mike

On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Sean Porterfield wrote:

> I didn't even get that much from the man page or cvs --help
> 
> I saw a message that Jason Felice posted with directions for getting one of 
>the 0.16x branches and kept changing commands until it worked.  I finally got 
>the files into the directory tn5250-0.17.1/ instead of tn5250/ with the 
>following command:
> 
> cvs -d ':pserver:anonymous@cvs.cleveland.lug.net:/tn5250' checkout -d 
>tn5250-0.17.1 tn5250
> 
> The -r didn't seem to work for me, but when I left it out, voila!
> 
> Martin Rowe wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > --- Sean Porterfield <sporter@bestdist.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >OK, I finally figured out how to get 0.17.1 (directions on the CVS server 
>would
> > >be nice!) since that branch doesn't get checked out when you do `cvs 
>checkout
> > >tn5250`
> >
> > Would you care to share that hard-earned knowledge? I can get 0.16pre2 
>using cvs checkout -r b0-16, but there doesn't seem to be a 0-17 branch. I did 
>a cvs status[1], and that only seems to point to a 0-16 branch. I second the 
>proposal for directions ;-)
> >
> > Regards, Martin
> >
> > [1]Picked this up from the man page, as I thought I ought to RTFM before 
>posting. I only use cvs for keeping up with tn5250, so my understanding of it 
>is rather sketchy.
> 
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