3.6 You are not using CVS anymore.

CVS is for dinosaurs. CVS was written by dinosaurs.... literally. Ok, maybe not literally, but it's roughly as old as dirt. For some reason I'll never understand it got to a point where it was workable and then nobody bothered to actually make it good even though tens of thousands of developers were using it every day. There are a number of other good systems out there and they're all relatively easy to install for a geek like you. We're practically in the middle of a version control renaissance these days.