Re: How to change preference outside wincvs

--- In cvsgui%40yahoogroups.com">cvsguiyahoogroups.com, John Deighan <jdeighan...> wrote:
&gt;
> At 06:16 PM 2/28/2007, bolin_hsu wrote:
&gt; >Hi,
> >
>; >Please help a desperate wincvs novice. I am trying tofind a way to
> >change wincvs preference outside wincvs. Here is why I want to do
> >that: I was in flatview when I accidentally switched to the C:
folder.
> >Wincvs started to look through my 70GB files and stopped
responding to
> >my mouse activities. I killed wincvs and restarted it only to find
it
&gt; >still in the same mode. So I am wondering if I can disable the
> >flatview mode by editing the preference file or something like
that.
> >
>; >By the way, I think it would be nice if wincvs responds to mouse
click
> >when it generates flatview.
>
> It was previously mentioned that when you start WinCVS and it
starts
> its scan of your hard drive, that hitting the ESC key will stop it.
> That seemed to work for me working on my desktop computer, but did
> not work at all when I was working over a Terminal Services
> connection. I have no idea why, but it's worth a try.
>;

Thanks. Hitting ESC works. Sometimes I have to hit it a couple of
times. But it eventually breaks from the disk scanning and gives me a
chance to turn off flat mode view.

Bolin

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