On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Mihai Chelaru wrote:

> On Monday 16 September 2002 16:05, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> >
> > I believe it's a problem with pkgsrc "cvs", though I'm not certain.
> > At least, I do recall that "-C" didn't quite work in the past, but now
> > that I've fully updated to 1.6, it seems to work with no problem.
>
> That was my first thought, too. But no, I use the cvs from distribution.
> # which cvs
> /usr/bin/cvs
> # cvs -version | head -n 2
>
> Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11 (client/server)
> # uname -sr
> NetBSD 1.6G

Which server are you using? I'm trying to see if I can reproduce the
problem with anoncvs.netbsd.org, but it's not being very cooperative
right now:

# cvs update -C
cvs [update aborted]: recv() from server anoncvs.netbsd.org: EOF


Frederick