Dave Huang wrote:

>On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 10:03:41AM +0100, sigsegv@rambler.ru wrote:
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>>Is anyone experiencing cvs checkout problems? Running "cvs -z 9 checkout 
>>-P src" starts downloading files for about 30 minutes and then it just 
>>stops without any progress, I kill cvs, start again and it happens over 
>>and over again and my Internet connection is fine. Any ideas?
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>cvs -z 9?? That's pretty mean :( How about trying it without the -z 9?
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OK I didn't realise that "-z 9" would cause significant problems for the 
cvs server, although compressing all data makes the download much 
faster. I will avoid using compression now.