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I'm surprised there has been no response to this. Please note this is not about being offline with respect to the CVS server, it is about a Windows offline folder being used as the checkout location. Thanks. David Holmes "David Holmes" <dholmes at --remove-this-part-dltech.com.au> wrote in message news:cmpr87$ra$1 at paris.nodomain.org... > I've tried searching for this but to no avail. > > Using CVSNT 2.0.51 on a Windows 2000 machine. I checkout a repository onto a > network mapped drive that is available offline. The cvs server is a UNIX > box. If my windows server is offline so that the network drive is in > "offline mode", I can't do any updates or commit etc with the cvs server, > even though I'm still online to the server (it's the other windows box that > is not online). > > I've seen other programs get confused when they try to work with files that > are being made available offline, but then I also use programs that have no > problem - so presumably there are some differences in the API's used for > file access in these circumstances. The error reported is: > > cvs [update aborted]: out of memory; can not allocate 2168995872 bytes > > so obviously something is getting confused. > > Is there a way to fix this? > > Thanks > David Holmes > >