Malcolm Purvis <malcolmp(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: Hi Malcolm, drop the -n I'd suggest. I use plain cvs and here is what I get: cd c:\Hacking\cvs.xemacs.org\XEmacs\xemacs-21.5-clean\tests\ cvs update -jsjt-xft -d . Compilation started at Thu Mar 10 22:07:13 2005 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time) ? automated/Test-Log-21-4-17-v.txt ? automated/Test-Log-21-5-19-v.txt ? automated/region-tests-1-1.el cvs server: Updating . RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/tests/ChangeLog,v retrieving revision 1.62 retrieving revision 1.62.2.2 Merging differences between 1.62 and 1.62.2.2 into ChangeLog rcsmerge: warning: conflicts during merge cvs server: Updating DLL cvs server: Updating Dnd cvs server: Updating autoconf U autoconf/regressiontest.pl cvs server: Updating automated M automated/region-tests.el cvs server: Updating gtk cvs server: Updating mule cvs server: Updating tooltalk Compilation finished at Thu Mar 10 22:07:24 The modified automated/region-tests.el is my own problem :-) Hope this helps, Adrian See (info "(cvs)Global options") if you have it installed: `-n' Do not change any files. Attempt to execute the `cvs_command', but only to issue reports; do not remove, update, or merge any existing files, or create any new files. Note that CVS will not necessarily produce exactly the same output as without `-n'. In some cases the output will be the same, but in other cases CVS will skip some of the processing that would have been required to produce the exact same output. See also https://ccvs.cvshome.org/source/browse/ccvs/doc/cvs.texinfo from which I built my local cvs.info* a long time ago. -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/