From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: jhpb@sarto.gaithersburg.md.us (Joseph H. Buehler)
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Direct CVS Access to egcs sources 
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 02:30:00 -0000
Message-id: <11131.885141440@hurl.cygnus.com>
References: <m2vhvilktn.fsf@altera.gaithersburg.md.us>
X-SW-Source: 1998-01/msg00649.html

  In message < m2vhvilktn.fsf@altera.gaithersburg.md.us >you write:
  > I am finding that the initial cvs checkout operation is very
  > sloooooow.  Could you put up a tar.gz of the tree that the initial
  > checkout makes, to get us all going?
I'd prefer not to, but if it becomes absolutely necessary we can
look into that.

You might want to compress the CVS data going across the wire via
cvs -z 9 <args>

That might help.  

jeff