On Thursday 31 August 2006 20:27, David Laight wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:18:50PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> > There's no need for that.  Just run "cvs update" and delete the files
> > that it reports are in your source tree but not in CVS.
>
> You probably want 'update -d -P -I ! -I CVS -I .#*'
> to force cvs to bleat about all the extra files,
> and then run 'find . -type l' to locate any symbolic links.
>
> 	David

Thanks to both of you for pointing out the problems and providing
a solution so quickly. I probably didn't have /usr/obj pre-existing as I had 
renamed it to obj.keep and so that triggered the problem.  This problem has 
bugged me on and off for a few years so its nice to know why. If someone can
fix the etcupdate issue then that would be useful.

Cheers,
Dave

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