RE: very wierd commit from emacs (or ntemacs) problem

[Chuck . Irvine]

> 
> I suspect that the problem is with quoting the log message that is
> passed to CVS.  Are you sure that Emacs invokes Bash as the shell?
> What is your SHELL variable set to?

Inside my .emacs, I set $SHELL to bash, i.e.:
(setenv "SHELL" "bash")  

> 
> > My version info is:
> > 
> > ntemacs 20.7.1
> > winnt 4.0
> > cvs 1.11
> > cygwin bash 2.04.7(2)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
> 
> Was this version of CVS compiled with Cygwin?  If not, there might be
> conflicts between how Emacs quotes arguments, how Bash unquotes them,
> and how CVS interprets them.
> 

It is the version of cvs that comes precompiled with cygwin.

Thanks

Chuck