From: Michael Conry (michael.conry at domain ucd.ie)
Date: Thu 05 Sep 2002 - 16:35:04 IST
On 0020 +0100 %{!Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 3:55:16PM +0100}, Darragh wrote:
> Hello,
> I am very new to Linux and need some help on a utility called cvs. As far
> as I'm aware its a similar protocol to FTP. I need to use it to download a
> program from :pserver:anoncvs at domain subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/w3. I am looking
> for information on how to use it. I'll have another look at the man pages
> but I think I have to set it up before I can download anything.
cvs is really a very different kind of thing to FTP, but the details of
that statement are left as an exercise to the reader (won't show up my
own ignorance that way ;-)
The application you want is cvsclient...
There is documentation here:
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/gnu/docs/cvs/cvsclient_toc.html
You might get a quick idea of how it works from here:
http://www.sci.muni.cz/~mikulik/gnuplot.html
where he explains how to get cvs gnuplot...
The commands are:
export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous at domain cvs.gnuplot.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gnuplot
cvs login
cvs -z3 checkout gnuplot
Something similar will probably do the job for you. I'm guessing the
following MIGHT work...
export CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs at domain subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/w3
cvs login
cvs -z3 checkout w3
m
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