sb> It's an old problem that was fixed at the cost of the integrity of the sb> XEmacs CVS tree (it's now impossible to retrieve full versions of sb> unpackaged XEmacsen). Your environment is unclean. The directory My environment was so clean before the checkout that the CVS working directory did not even exist! I just try to checkout xemacs-packages from scratch. How can I get beyond this problem which makes cvs checkout bail out to continue with checkout of the remaining packages? Thanks, Adrian sb> you're bombing on doesn't exist in CVS any more. sb> Adrian Aichner <aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com&gt; writes: -- Adrian Aichner Applications Engineer Teradyne GmbH Semiconductor Test Group Telephone +49/89/41861(0)-208 Dingolfinger Strasse 2 Fax +49/89/41861-217 D-81673 MUENCHEN E-mail aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com