"Jay A. St. Pierre" <Jay.St.Pierre(a)Colorado.EDU&gt; writes: Hello Jay, > ngst:~/src/xemacs> cvs -z3 -d :pserver:cvs＠cvs.xemacs.org:/pack/xemacscvs co -l packages [...] > cvs server: Updating packages/xemacs-packages > cvs server: Updating packages/mule-packages > > I don't understand why not, because they show up in ViewCVS on > the web. But it makes it kinda hard to build stuff without these > two files. These two "files" are sub directories, and you will get them after you've removed the -l switch to cvs co. norbert.