I was thinking about that before I sent the note and as a test ran
that log (cvs co etc) in a blank directory after clearing out the CVS
environment variables and the .cvspass in my home dir..  it's a very
strange error--and not one I'm getting from the netbsd trees in norway
or france..  'course, I'd prefer to use USA's mirror--it's a little
faster for me.

tnx for your response--  would you mind taking a look? it
returns the error fairly quickly. perhaps something has changed in the
aliases, or config? perhaps it is just me and I need to give it
another shot. =]

marc

On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 22:31:37 +0200
> From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
> To: marc@sudog.com
> Cc: netbsd-help@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: allo--having trouble checking out netbsd-1-5 src..
> 
> On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 12:10:35PM -0700, marc@sudog.com wrote:
> > 
> > Probably something simple-- but I can't seem to check out tags anymore?
> > Running cvs-current (Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.10.8 (client/server))
> > 
> > See log:
> > 
> > :fire:12:02:42 /usr/cvs15# export CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot
> > :fire:12:02:44 /usr/cvs15# cvs login
> > (Logging in to anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org)
> > CVS password: (anoncvs)
> > :fire:12:02:46 /usr/cvs15# cvs -z3 co -r netbsd-1-5 basesrc
> > cvs [server aborted]: cannot open directory /cvsroot/basesrc/binbin: No such file or directory
> > :fire:12:02:56 /usr/cvs15#
> 
> Do you have an existing tree in /usr/cvs ? If so you should use cvs update,
> not cvs co.
> 
> --
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
> --
>