Sat Nov 20 21:59:44 IST 2010 ============================ If you are reading this, you are looking in the wrong file. Gawk is no longer maintained in CVS. It is maintained in git from savannah.gnu.org. According to the Savannah website, you can use: cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@pserver.git.sv.gnu.org:/gawk.git \ co -d gawk master to get the development version. Most likely if you use: cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@pserver.git.sv.gnu.org:/gawk.git \ co -d gawk-stable gawk-stable you'll get the gawk-stable branch. But I haven't tried either of these and I can't help you if they don't work. Please move directly to Git if you can. Thanks, Arnold Robbins Gawk Maintainer