Hi,
I guess this is the long-known problem filenames in the PSGML packages 
which are illegal under Windows NT (dots in filenames).
Adrian
cd c:/export/home/tmp/CVSroot/
cvs -d :pserver:xemacs@cvs.xemacs.org:/usr/CVSroot checkout xemacs-packages
Compilation started at Sun Jun 28 01:29:53 1998
U xemacs-packages/ChangeLog
<lines deleted by Adrian>
U xemacs-packages/oa/psgml/etc/webtechs.catalog
cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot make directory xemacs-packages/oa/psgml/etc/ISO_8879:1986:
Invalid argument
Compilation exited abnormally with code 1 at Sun Jun 28 02:46:49
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