On Mar 25 22:24, 1996, Paul Edwards of 3:711/934.9 wrote:

MP>>  I couldn't get the dos version to work it gave the following
MP>> when I type "cvs checkout sr".

MP>> CVS.EXE checkout: Updating sr
MP>> CVS.EXE checkout: cannot create read lock in repository `e:\src\sr': No 
MP>> such file or directory
MP>> CVS.EXE [checkout aborted]: read lock failed - giving up

MP>> e:\src\sr does exist  and I've set the following.

MP>> USER=Parker
MP>> CVSROOT=e:\src

PE> You need to create e:\src\sr before you can check out "sr".  What
PE> directory were you in when you issued the cvs checkout command?
PE> Hopefuly not e:\src!!!

 I was in e:\msq and as I said above e:\src\sr does exist.
Matthew
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