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I just solved my problem getting ViewCVS to work on a CVSNT server. drumroll please... Spaces in the author's name. If you try command line or turning onViewCVS debug, you can see Rlog fails with the message "missing ; after author" If you look in ,v files, you can see lines like this: 1.1 date 2002.02.26.08.03.20; author James Rudnicki; state Exp; So spaces are evil ( as usual ). Windows allows logins to have spaces, unlike the *nix heritage from which CVS derives, so this entry would not be expected. This unexpected author field can occur when you use :ntserver: or the local protocols to access the repository. Solutions: 1) To fix, you can find every bad author field in every ,v file and edit it--one big find and replace. Be careful about binaries and some editors though. 2) Get clean update--delete module--recreate using no space name. This dumps history but is quick. 3) Fix parsing in rlog code... I hope this helps somebody else. nite, Jim