Guide typo?
 

this part of the guide dosent make any sense, can someone give me any direction:

c:
cd \eqemu\cvs
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/eqemu login
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/eqemu -z3 co eqemu
NOTE: Press enter when it asks you for a password (leave it blank)
NOTE: Repeat these commands on failure (sourceforge's network gets swamped at times). Sometimes, it takes me 10-15 tries!

theres nothing in the cvs folder other than the wincvs folder, so this dosent do anything

Worked ealier today for at least 5 people i know of.

it works, bc you made cvs part of the command line, remember that when you set your path, you have to reset the pc

So where is the typo?

Spedfist,

CVS creates any needed folders for you.

Also, If you read the guide thoroughly, you'd know that you already made an C:\eqemu\cvs directory. (If that is what you are referring to as the "Typo")

Imho, if you cannot use CVS, you shouldn't be trying to create your own server, let alone the 5.0 DR3 release. This is a very easy guide to follow, well written and composed.

Cheers

re
 

ive run a server before and ive installed cvs, but whenever i type in the specified line i get a "'cvs' is not regocnized as a internal or external command...blah, blah" ive installed everything and done everything said in the earlier parts of the tutorial, dont know why its not workin

Spedfist,

Try changing directory to C:\eqemu\cvs\wincvs\CVSNT

Maybe it worked for others because they already had the command line version of cvs installed into c:\eqemu\cvs before following this guide and installing wincvs ?

re
 

that worked, thanks for the help :D

No, it worked, b/c we added cvs to the system path.

If you only install wincvs then the directory
c:\eqemu\cvs
will not access the cvs program. You must use the directory
c:\eqemu\cvs\wincvs\cvsnt
However i found it was much easyer to just download python at
www.python.org and install it along with wincvs and enter the correct info into wincvs and let the windows version download the files for me without having to type in the 2 long command lines.
Once you have both wincvs and python installed just click on remote tab and choose checkout module.

Checkout settings tab
In the Module name and path on the server enter
eqemu

In the local folder to checkout to enter
c:\

Checkout options tab
check the Force using the current CVSROOT (-d)

General tab
in Authentication enter
pserver

in path enter
/cvsroot/eqemu

in host address enter
cvs.sourceforge.net

in username enter
anonymous

leave all other settings default and click ok and the filles will be downloaded into the c:\eqemu directory.
you may have to try several times if the server is busy but you only have to re-enter part of the info after the 1st time making it a lot easier to use.

Re: re
 

then you missed the step after installing cvs, which was to install it into the windows path, and then reset the pc to make the changes work. Following the steps exactly are required.

re
 

no....as i said, i did all the steps, i did that part too, exactly as it said, added it on the end of the line, still didnt work, but just adding wincvs\CVSNT on the end made it work correctly

Kai, where is your cvs.exe installed ? What is your PATH. If you follow Merth's guide, cvs.exe is installed to c:\eqeqmu\cvs\wincvs\CVSNT. Adding c:\EqEmu\cvs\wincvs to your path won't find it, adding c:\eqeqmu\cvs\wincvs\CVSNT will. Maybe they changed the cvs distribution after Merth posted the guide, or maybe I'm a tard :D

I had this problem earlier today.

The newest version of cvs installs with a directory named \cvs\cvsnt where the cvs.exe program resides.

The older version of cvs has the cvs.exe in the \csv directory. That's why the path has to be changed to \cvs\cvsnt of the latest version of cvs.

re
 

ahh there we go, didnt think about the version dif, thanks :D