aha. found it, the cvs site was different from the original one posted. cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/macroquest login should be cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@macroquest.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/macroquest login and cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/mac...