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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit:  ports/comms Makefile
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>  Modified:    comms     Makefile
>  Log:
>  Turn on lrzsz.
>  
>  (btw, is there a better way to do this than ``cvs co ports'' when all I want
>  to edit is ports/comms/Makefile?  Freefall doesn't have enought space for
>  a total ports checkout).

Someone mentioned the -l flag.  You can also just do
`cvs co ports/comms/Makefile'.

When I started, checking out anything but modules was discouraged because
it interferes with the cvs command history, but the command history got
scrambled in other ways so we no longer generate it.

Bruce