Newbie: Getting CVS to work

[gerard patel]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 05:53:35 GMT, gerson.kurz at t-online.de (Gerson
Kurz) wrote:

>I downloaded and unpacked the current WINE CVS .tar.bz2 from "Andis
>Wine Files". Then I go into that directory and do the following:
>
>zwei:/home/wine # export
>CVSROOT=:pserver:cvs at rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de:/home/wine
>zwei:/home/wine # cvs  login
>(Logging in to cvs at rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de)
>CVS password: cvs
>zwei:/home/wine # cvs diff -u dlls/kernel/comm.c
>cvs [server aborted]: no such directory `dlls/kernel'
>cvs [diff aborted]: connect to localhost:2401 failed: Connection
>refused
>zwei:/home/wine #
>
>I've looked in ./CVS/Root and changed it from localhost to
>rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de, without any effect. 

I tried the same thing with my tree (downloaded directly
from cvs) and the same command work fine. Either the
file is bad or you are not at the right level : if you do a 
ls, do you see a dlls/ subdirectory (among others of
course)

Gerard