Malcolm> Malcolm> I agree that it is an invocation problem. However, it doesn't work with Malcolm> cmd or bash, which are the only shells I have available (and one more Malcolm> than most NT users will have!) It appears that the necessity for Malcolm> redirection and quoting issues are mucking things up. Can you try changing the following line in cvs-run-process: (start-process "cvs" cvs-stderr-buffer cvs-shell "-c" to (start-process "cvs" cvs-stderr-buffer cvs-shell "/c" and using /bin/sh as your cvs-shell? (This is suggested on the cyclic site for pcl-cvs for NT). I've added a new cvs variable for this purpose. Please let me know asap if it works. Malcolm> Is there a good reason for using redirection rather than processing Malcolm> everything together? From a cursory look at the code it would appear Malcolm> possible to send the output of the cvs command to a temporary buffer, Malcolm> then use the process sentinel to parse the entire buffer into the Malcolm> cookie-collection. It appears this would both make the code simpler and Malcolm> remove the need to redirect, while only modifying run-cvs-process and Malcolm> the process sentinels. If you think this is feasible I'll try to hack Malcolm> this up. I was thinking about this myself, but I have to believe Per Cederqvist had good reason for doing it that way. You might try sending him or the guys on pcl-cvs(a)cyclic.com email before embarking down this path. I certainly don't want to make this major a change for the XEmacs 21.0 release. greg