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Re: Changes in latest snapshot
Hi!
Wednesday, 15 May, 2002 Charles Wilson cwilson@ece.gatech.edu wrote:
CW> Then, you switch to binmode, and do another cvslogin, resulting in this:
CW> :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.cygnus.com:/cvs/src Ay=0=h<Z \r\n
CW> :pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvs A \r\n
CW> :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/src Ay=0=h<Z \n <<<< no \r
CW> The next time the .cvspass file is read in, cvs is confused by the
CW> presence of the \r's in the first two lines. (Which it never saw
CW> before, thanks to textmode).
CW> Use switch back to binmode, use dos2unix on .cvspass (and .cvsrc for
CW> that matter), and try again...
Doesn't it seem to you that we should rather patch cvs to open
.cvspass in textmode? IIRC, \r is not a valid symbol for encrypted
passwords, so it can be safely skipped.
i use "binmode everywhere" myself, but i suppose we'll have yet
another binmode/textmode hell here after changing the default.
Egor. mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19
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