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

[David Kastrup]

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.

Why should you?  The CVSROOT for this project stays on
subversions.gnu.org and is certainly not magically transferred to your
machine.  What you get is just a set of working files, in (and/or
below) your current directory.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum