For details please see: http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=129874 This patch makes 'M-x cvs-status' produce the same output as on recent versions of GNU Emacs. Without patch: In directory .: Message: Parser Error: '===================================================================' Message: Parser Error: 'File: .cvsignore Status: Up-to-date' Message: Parser Error: '' Message: Parser Error: ' Working revision: 1.2 2005-10-20 23:50:34 +0200' Message: Parser Error: ' Repository revision: 1.2 /home/hoerandl/cvsroot/homepage/elina/hoerandl/.cvsignore,v' Message: Parser Error: ' Commit Identifier: 6e83435811534567' Message: Parser Error: ' Sticky Tag: (none)' [...] With patch: In directory .: '===================================================================' Message: File: .cvsignore Status: Up-to-date Message: Message: Working revision: 1.2 2005-10-20 23:50:34 +0200 Message: Repository revision: 1.2 /home/hoerandl/cvsroot/homepage/elina/hoerandl/.cvsignore,v Message: Commit Identifier: 6e83435811534567 Message: Sticky Tag: (none) [...] I made the patch by comparing the code of PCL-CVS in XEmacs with the code in GNU Emacs. GNU Emacs just suppresses this "Parser Error" message as well. -- Mike FABIAN <mfabian(a)suse.de&gt; http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。