never mind.
someone, who shall remain nameless, gave me the wrong tag name. ;-)
apparently cvs assumes a tag is numeric if it starts with a digit.
proper tag name is V4_0_1_Cleanup
Dwayne
> Hi,
>
> can anyone tell me how to checkout a specific branch of the xc project
> from cvs? I am trying the below and getting an error message.
>
> www5% cvs -z5 checkout -r 4_0_1Cleanup xc
> cvs [server aborted]: Numeric tag 4_0_1Cleanup contains characters other than digits and '.'
>
> Dwayne
>
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