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(Sorry, posted before to the wrong group in the newsserver...) I am back with some more "facts" about the failure of export to obey the -N flag. Today back home I did the following: 1) I installed 2.0.8 on an NT4 workstation 2) Then I used this with sspi as the client on the command line towards my main XP machine which was running 2.0.5. 3) The command cvs export -r HEAD -d EXP1 -N BosseTest/Nisse executed as I want, expanding the folder tree and all. 4) Then I went to the XP machine and did the same on that, and it also operated satisfactorily. 5) Now I updated CVSNT on my XP workstation from 2.0.5 to 2.0.8 using the installer from the website downloaded today. 6) Then I repeated the command from before into a new folder (I still had the command window open). But now the export results in the flat file structure problem. 7) So I went back to the NT4 box and did the same (also in the still open command window). Now the export was flat. Here is a copy of the output in the command window on my XP machine: E:\cvstest>cvs export -r HEAD -d EXP1 -N BosseTest/Nisse cvs export: Updating EXP1/BosseTest/Nisse U EXP1/BosseTest/Nisse/CopyofBosse.txt U EXP1/BosseTest/Nisse/mangedoc.txt U EXP1/BosseTest/Nisse/nissedoc.txt E:\cvstest>cvs ver Client: Concurrent Versions System (CVSNT) 2.0.5 (client/server) Server: Concurrent Versions System (CVSNT) 2.0.5 (client/server) ... here I updated to 2.0.8 .... E:\cvstest>cvs ver Client: Concurrent Versions System (CVSNT) 2.0.8 (client/server) Server: Concurrent Versions System (CVSNT) 2.0.8 (client/server) E:\cvstest>cvs export -r HEAD -d EXP2 -N BosseTest/Nisse cvs export: Updating EXP2 U EXP2/CopyofBosse.txt U EXP2/mangedoc.txt U EXP2/nissedoc.txt E:\cvstest> Any thoughts on why it works like this, apparently there are a number of items involved here since the server update changes the behaviour so much from 2.0.5 to 2.0.8. I also tried to use the daily snapshot of today, but when I replace my CVSNT installed files with these the cvs service won't start because of a missing file MSVCP71.dll, which is not part of the package and is not in my system either (I do have the Visual Studio DOTNET installed, but not the latest version). /Bo (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)