Michael> Steve Youngs writes: Michael> Switching to pserver in the mule directory has helped Michael> somewhat (at least, with downloading) However, this is very Michael> inconvenient. Michael> Perhaps I don't know how to do it properly, but I have to Michael> edit CVS/Root by hand to replace :ext:michaelk＠ to Michael> :pserver:xemacs＠ Michael, you have the same problem I had. Martin came to my rescue by suggesting to set following variable: `$CVS_IGNORE_REMOTE_ROOT' For CVS 1.10 and older, setting this variable prevents CVS from overwriting the `CVS/Root' file when the `-d' global option is specified. Later versions of CVS do not rewrite `CVS/Root', so CVS_IGNORE_REMOTE_ROOT has no effect. On Windows NT I set CVS_IGNORE_REMOTE_ROOT to 1 and it worked fine. Hope this helps, Adrian Michael> Besides, I think cvs update only looks at CVS/Root in the Michael> top directory where it is invoked. (Didn't check now, but Michael> I think I ran into it before.) So, if this is true, it Michael> means that updating the entire package tree might be more Michael> complicated than usual. <lines deleted by Adrian> Michael> --michael -- Adrian Aichner <adrian(a)xemacs.org&gt;, http://www.xemacs.org