Re: Problem with checkout

[Derek R. Price]

Sean Preston wrote:

> thing is that when I checkout a tree from the cvs repository all the files
> permissions are read only and yet I have read/write access to the files.
> If I manually change the permissions then I can edit the files and commit
> them back.

Are the files being watched (look up the 'watch' command in the CVS manual if
you don't understand this)?  Is your CVSREAD variable set?

Derek

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