Re: How do I check the latest version of Emacs out of CVS?

[Billy O'Connor]

Dan Anderson <dan@mathjunkies.com> writes:

>         I  have  been   told  that  the  only  way   to  support  SMTP
> authentication in emacs is to get  the CVS version.  I went to the GNU
> Emacs web site, and found out the emacs commands to get it via CVS:
>
> cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/emacs login
> cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/emacs checkout emacs
>
>         So,  like I was  told I  ran those  two commands  in sequence.
> However, I didn't see any files in my CVSROOT, when I ran as both root
> and an underpriviledged user.  At first all it did was output a number
> of Us  followed by file names.   After that it just  output a sequence
> like:
>
> ,----[ Just an example of all of the files
> | cvs server: Updating emacs/man

You should have a new subdirectory in whatever directory you ran the
checkout command in.  That's where the source gets put.

Billy