On http://ecls.sourceforge.net/cvs.html: # ADDRESS=anonymous at common-lisp.net:/project/ecl/cvsroot # cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous:$ADDRESS co ecl will hardly work with any POSIX shell, it needs to be # export ADDRESS=anonymous at common-lisp.net:/project/ecl/cvsroot # cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous:$ADDRESS co ecl Leslie