[Coco] [Color Computer] What happend to http://www.nitros9.org/

[Benoit Bleau]

Great, I found a menu where I can enter manual CVS commands, and now, 
I'm getting the file downloads.
Thanks Gene!

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 February 2007, Benoit Bleau wrote:
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>> I installed WinCVS, but haven't had any success in building a working
>> configuration.
>> I used ":pserver:anonymous at nitros9.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/nitros9"
>> as the CVSroot, and I simply pressed "enter" for the password, then got
>> the message "CVS exited normally with error code 0".
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> I hope that wasn't the full command line, because its supposed to be:
> cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at nitros9.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/nitros9 login
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> Pressing enter at the password prompt then sets up a CVS dir in the
> location in the file structure where you are cd'd to ATM.  As long as
> you have write access to that directory, the return code should be 0.
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> So that looks as if it worked.  Now what happens when you issue this:
> cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous at nitros9.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/nitros9 co -P nitros9
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> It should pull the repository, starting at:
> U nitros9/TODO
> U nitros9/makefile
> U nitros9/rules.mak
> U nitros9/3rdparty/ReadMe
> U nitros9/3rdparty/makefile
> U nitros9/3rdparty/booters/boot_mmc.asm
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> yadda, yadda, till its done, and when its done you should have a verbatum 
> copy of the tree on your machine.  Ready to build.
>
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>> To my shame, I must admit that I'm not that good a programmer, and I
>> have only done simple C and assembly projects, with few files and simple
>> make commands.
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>> I've searched all the menus in WinCVS, but I don't understand how to
>> download the Nitros9 tree...
>>
>> My hope was to get Nitros9 built for my brand new Tano Dragon :)
>>
>> I think I need to google more on how to make this cvs stuff work. Man
>> it's complicated way way to much for what it seems to do.
>>
>> -Benoit
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