On 17 May 2001 17:38:46 +0200, Didier Verna <didier(a)xemacs.org> wrote:
 sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr.
Preprocessor]) wrote:
 
 > This is apparently a server-side problem.  The out-of-memory problems
 > are also still around.  I see it happen only with ssh.  :pserver:
 > works better.
 
         Hmmm. I indeed used :ext: with my own account to perform the checkout. 
What I usually do in this case is to cd to the partially extracted directory and run
cvs -q update -d -P
This extracts the remaining of the tree. I do this repeatedly, until I
get the whole tree.
Greetings,
-- 
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