Thanks for your thoughts Derek...

That makes sense, except that the problem continues to occur
even when I completely remove all the files and folders
under CVS control (including "CVS/*") and start from scratch, using
only one client.
I tried switching clients only because the problem was occurring.

Regards,
Lars

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> From: Derek Robert Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:33 AM
> To: Lars Huttar
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Jim Hyslop
> Subject: Re: strange "it is in the way" message
> 
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> Lars Huttar wrote:
> 
> >I've tried this with both a windows client (1.11.12 from 
> cvshome.org),
> >and the Cygwin cvs client.
> 
> 
> This might be your problem.  If you installed Cygwin to use UNIX line
> endings, then your Windows cvs.exe is creating files with \r\n for an
> EOL and your Cygwin cvs.exe is creating files with a \n EOL.  A file
> checked out by one EXE will always look modied to the other.
> 
> There are two possible solutions to this.  The first is to not share
> sandboxes between the two different CVS executables.  The other is to
> reinstall your Cygwin to use Windows EOLs and maybe recompile you
> Cygwin CVS executable.
> 
> Derek
> 
> - --
>                 *8^)
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