[Monotone-devel] Re: Executable for Windows NT and 2000

[Jon Bright]

Hi,

Henry Nestler wrote:
> Oh, sorry!
> Was not me, a friend says me only, and I trusted him blindly. :-(
>
> I check this quick on my PC: It works on Windows NT 4.0!

It should work down to 95 with IE4, but I've only tested XP.

> On this PC, I see that the passphrase was always visable on command 
> prompt? Under Linux I never see my password on screen.

This is an as-yet unresolved problem with the Windows version.

> C:\TEMP\src>..\monotone --db=..\test.db address@hidden
> de commit --branch="local.test"
> monotone: beginning commit
> monotone: manifest 462e9f493fe55e41c980176e1a297db2864433a7
> monotone: revision e1bd40eb403b4f463cc451c987621166e956fa72
> monotone: branch local.test
> Der Befehl ist entweder falsch geschrieben oder konnte nicht gefunden werden.
> Bitte überprüfen Sie die Schreibweise und die Umgebungsvariable 'PATH'.
> monotone: misuse: edit of log message failed

I guess I should get the Windows version to search for Wordpad by 
default.  Notepad isn't particularly good, since it uses CR+LF by 
default.  Without EDITOR being set, the Windows version currently won't 
usually find anything...

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Jon Bright
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