Hi All, I used the former unknowingly until it stopped working yesterday. Here is how the problem manifests in PCL-CVS: PCL-CVS release v2_9_9 Repository: :pserver:cvs＠sunsite.dk:/pack/xemacscvs Working directory: c:\Hacking\cvs.xemacs.org\XEmacs\packages\ Message: Parser Error: 'cvs update: authorization failed: server sunsite.dk rejected access to /pack/xemacscvs for user cvs' Message: Parser Error: 'cvs update: used empty password; try "cvs login" with a real password' --------------------- Empty --------------------- -- last cmd: cvs -f -z3 update -Pd -- And here is how I fixed it for my workspaces (e.g. module packages): cd c:\Hacking\cvs.xemacs.org\XEmacs\packages\ c:\cygwin\bin\find . -name Root -exec perl -p -i.orig -e "s|:pserver:cvs\＠sunsite.dk:/pack/xemacscvs|:pserver:cvs\＠cvs.xemacs.org:/pack/xemacscvs|;" {} ; Compilation started at Tue Mar 12 10:55:27 2002 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time) Compilation finished at Tue Mar 12 10:57:30 Hope this helps, Adrian -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/