[lazarus] CVS

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Horacio Jamilis wrote:

> I am trying to start helping in the lazarus project.
> Yesterday I tried to use CVS as the help on the lazarus page says but I was not able to make it work.
> 
> I type: "cvs login" and enter.
> It asks me for a password. I type: "cvs" (I can't see if I am typing anything) and press enter, the screen moves one line up (because of the enter) and then nothing. I wait a couple of minutes but nothing happens.
> I think CVS can't find the server because I access internet throw a proxy server on my lan but I didn't found where to set up the proxy in the CVS program.

You have no solution but to ask the proxy maintainer (the firewall you mean probably)
to let the CVS port through. CVS doesn't support proxies (and they don't support CVS)

The port number CVS uses is 2401.


Michael.