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Related to the sun issue http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4109888.html I think you have to log in first to see that one on the sun site. Windows only and I think NT/2K/etc. only as well. When you start your JVM without a console window, it is not capable of generating one. Thus when you start NB with runidew.exe and invoke external programs such as "ssh" it has NO way of receiving typed input when necessary. For instance, sometimes the ssh program will ask you if you want to connect to this "unknown host" and you have to type 'yes.' This question is in the console window which you can not see, thus ssh and as a result CVS will not work. This is a long time issue with sun and the best I expect NB to do is inform everyone and post the work around. The work around is to start NB with runide.exe and not runidew.exe so that you get the required console. If my memory servs me right, this is not an issue on win98.
Trung might know something; as I recall he was the first to fix the basic problem with console windows popping open under DOS during external compilation...
Assigning to Trung for evaluation.
Here is more insight into my problem. Today I noticed the response to my cvs request to connect to this unknown server thourh SSH was in the cvs commands output. cvs diff: warning: unrecognized response `The server's host key is not cached in the registry. You' from cvs server cvs diff: warning: unrecognized response `have no guarantee that the server is the computer you' from cvs server cvs diff: warning: unrecognized response `think it is.' from cvs server cvs diff: warning: unrecognized response `The server's key fingerprint is:' from cvs server cvs diff: warning: unrecognized response `ssh-dss 1024 02:ab:7c:aa:49:ed:0b:a8:50:13:10:c2:3e:92:0f:42' from cvs server cvs diff: warning: unrecognized response `If you trust this host, enter "y" to add the key to' from cvs server cvs diff: warning: unrecognized response `PuTTY's cache and carry on connecting.' from cvs server cvs diff: warning: unrecognized response `If you want to carry on connecting just once, without' from cvs server cvs diff: warning: unrecognized response `adding the key to the cache, enter "n".' from cvs server cvs diff: warning: unrecognized response `If you do not trust this host, press Return to abandon the' from cvs server cvs diff: warning: unrecognized response `connection.' from cvs server cvs diff: warning: unrecognized response `Store key in cache? (y/n) error unrecognized request `sponses ok error Valid-requests Checked-in New-entry Checksum Copy-file Updated Created Update-existing Merged Patched Rcs-diff Mode Mod-time Removed Remove-entry Set-static-directory Clear-static-directory Set-sticky Clear-sticky Template Set-checkin-prog Set-update-prog Notified Module-expansion Wrapper-rcsOption M Mbinary E F MT'' from cvs server Protocol error: Root request missing As you can see, by it being there, their is no way for me to indicate 'yes' to its yes/no question. The workaround is to first connect from dos prompt and say yes, then the question is never asked again. for NB I dont know a good solution.
Now that I think about it, this is really an invalid issue. The real issue is that NB needs to understand the response from the external ssh tool. If it understood the tool then it could open a window as it seems to handle other cvs responses appripriately. So I am not sure this qualifies as a defect as much as an optional enhancement. But it certainly is capable of baffling new users such as myself. I have to add that a user that knows where to find the output of the CVS command should be capable of discerning what has happened. I think this is invalid. Feel free to mark it as such.