>More help on how to use cvs is found through: > >cvs --help > >help on commands: > >cvs --help-commands > >help on a specific command: > >cvs --help COMMAND Also, if you're not too confident with CVS and want to be sure not to mess anything up (although just about anything is recoverable if you have access to the repository itself), you can use the -n CVS option to simulate running the command without actually making any changes, e.g. "cvs -n commit". Notice that the -n comes before the command; most CVS commands also have options that come after the command. Graham