In message <20011211022137.A8771@noc.untraceable.net>, Andrew Brown writes:
>updates, on the other hand, only update directories that are there,
>unless you specify -d so that it creates all the directories it might
>need.  using -P with this is also good, as it removes all the
>directories that are empty at the end (whether they ended up not being
>needed, or because they ended up with no files left).

Wow.  I feel stupid now, I actually already new that.  I think what happened
was:
1.  I wrote a script copied from the NetBSD home page to do updates.
2.  I modified it to do checkouts (removing the '-d').
3.  I lost the first script.
4.  I modified my checkout script to do updates - and lost the '-d' in the
process.

*sigh*.  Thanks.

-s