Re: [LUG] Problems downloading source code via CVS

[Robin Cornelius <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 15 December 2004 22:06, Rob Beard wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I don't know if anyone can help me out, but I'm having a few problems 
> downloading some source code for a webcam driver.  On the web site 
> (http://nw802.sourceforge.net/news.html), it gives a command to use to 
> download the source.
>
> I enter the command:
>
> cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvsroot/nw802 login
>
> At the password prompt, I just press enter and it just sits there.  
> After a few minutes it times out.  I read it might be something to do 
> with ports being blocked?
>
> After much playing with it, I still can't get it to work.  I tried 
> telling it to use port 443 and port 80 but both them ports give a 400 error.
>
> Does anyone know how I can get these files?

Unless they are doing something funky this should work:-

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvsroot/nw802 login 

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvsroot/nw802 co modulename

where "module" is what ever module you want, that is the "standard" 
sourceforge cvs access.

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