Hi Raul: Well, I just checked and my version of cvs client is 1.11, doesn't say anything about a patch level. My guess is you might be able to just touch .cvspass in your home directory and see if that works. Cvs is supposed to create it f it doesn't exist on first use. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061