Re: CVS download problem

[Jeffrey Stephens <jsteve17@tampabay.rr.com>]

Matthew Flatt wrote:

>Quoting Jeffrey Stephens:
>
>>I just downloaded Scheme from the CVS website at 
>>www.cs.utah.edu/plt/anoncvs/
>>In previous downloads from this site CVS always created the directory 
>>"plt" and
>>downloaded all files into it.  Now a directory named "-P" is created 
>>instead.
>>
>
>What CVS client are you using? (Apparently, it has a different set of
>command-line flags than the ones I use.)
>

I am using Redhat 6.2 with CVS 1.10.7.  When I downloaded Scheme I 
simply cut/pasted
the two lines on the web page into my x-term.

>
>
>>I suppose
>>I should know this, but how do I 'mv', 'cp', or 'rm' a directory that 
>>begins with a '-'? I
>>tried the obvious by enclosing -P in single and double quotes but 
>>neither works.
>>
>
>"mv -- -P <newname>" will probably work.
>

Thanks. I had forgotten how to do this. I also discovered that if you 
use the full directory
path, /home/jeffs/-P, you can also delete/move/copy.

>
>
>Thanks,
>Matthew
>
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