It was just for a checkout. I was doing the same as I always used to do: go to where I keep the latest version and do cvs co . witth the environment set up. Now I just tried cvs -d /cvsroot/mlton co . and it said that there was no such file or directory, but from the speed and the lack of password checking it looks like it tried to use the local machine. What do you use to freshen your copy of mlton?