$ export CVSROOT=":pserver:anonymous@cvs.xmms.org:/cvs"
$ cvs -z3 checkout xmms
cvs server: Updating xmms
U xmms/.cvsignore
U xmms/ABOUT-NLS
...
U xmms/xmms/defskin/volume.xpm
peter@obscurantist:~/determine/pm-cvs/ex $
Here we set the location of our CVS server, and then ask cvs to
check out the module named xmms. -z3 simply tells it to use gzip -3 to
compress the data a bit.