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> >I am not. Is it otherwise safe? > > Tony claims so and many people are using it right now. I have the > 2.0.62.1817 on my test server and it seems fine but I don't use it a > whole lot, especially during the holiday season... Okay, thanks. > I would say that *copying* the files while retaining file permissions > is an operating system thing rather than a CVS thing. A copy will in > any case *not* preserve anything like permissions. After the copy you > will have the same permissions on the coped files as you have on the > folder where you placed the copy into. Any permissions on the old tree > stays there and is not copied. Of course it is an OS thing. My question was: if I do it, will everything work the way it used to? From your answer I gather "yes". [snip] > I have also read about CYGWIN but I have never used it. Seems like it > causes a great deal of confusion and problems on the Windows platform, > so why not simply get rid of it? What use is it? It's good because I work on the command line and I want such tools as awk, sed, grep, sh, etc etc etc. N.