[I think I've seen this reported before, sounds like a bug.  At some
point CVS should be checking whether the path ends in ISDIRSEP, or
some such.

-kingdon]

From: "Peter A. Vogel" <pvogel@chromatic.com>
To: <info-cvs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Win95 CVS Client (using pserver)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 10:12:56 -0700

I think I've seen this as well, the issue seems to rear
its ugly head only when the path ends in a slash, which
is necessary only when you want your .cvspass in the root
of some drive. (as I do).

-Peter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John O'Connor [mailto:john@shore.net]
> Sent: Friday, July 24, 1998 6:43 AM
> To: pvogel@chromatic.com
> Cc: info-cvs@gnu.org
> Subject: RE: Win95 CVS Client (using pserver)
> 
> 
> Peter A. Vogel writes:
> > set CVS_PASSFILE=c:/.cvspass
> > 
> > setting HOME is a bad idea (in general) because
> > CVS wants a FORWARD slash and other apps use HOME
> > and expect a backslash, CVS_PASSFILE is neatly
> > CVS specific.
> 
> My HOME variable is set to c:\users\john on several Win32 machines and
> cvs correctly reads .cvsrc and writes to .cvspass.  Most other things
> like CVSROOT and the admin files do require the forward slashes though.
> 
> john
> 
>