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Just a suggestion: use WinCVS! You can enter the target folder in a nice GUI and let it fiddle with the command line. You can learn more on how to use the command line by examining the commands generated by WinCVS. -- Kevin Agius "Carl Zmola" <carl at membersonlysoftware.com> wrote in message news:mailman.96.1083095372.235.cvsnt at cvsnt.org... > > Can someone tell me if the following is supposed to work? > > I have a directory c:\testprojects\p2 that is in a module testprojects > I have a tag on p2 "testtag" > > > I want to check this out. > > in a different directory > cvs co -r testtag testprojects\p2 > > This complains about testtag not being a tag, but if I > > cvs co testprojects\p2 > cvs update -r testtag testprojects\p2\* > > It seems to work. Is this the normal way to do things? > > I am a little nervous about what this does for files that have been > added or removed between Head and testtag. > > > Thanks, > > Carl >