I think you can make a module alias.  So in module files you make:

boost    spirit/boost
libs    spirit/libs

Then you could do

cvs co libs or cvs co boost instead of what you have below and it would 
create those directories.

Here is the 'official word'

http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html#The_modules_File

I can NOT stress enough this book is your friend.  It is really a 
plethora of information on CVS and its available online and in a 
multitude of formats.  I strongly suggest if you start beating on CVS as 
a user or administrator you download a copy for reference.  Plus Karl is 
a good guy, so if you like it buy the book and encourage him to write 
more good works. :)

Derek

John (EBo) David wrote:

>I am writing some rather simple scripts into an autoconfiguration file
>which downloads a directory subtree from a CVS library repository.  The
>problem I am having is to strip the library name from the qualified
>subdirectory name.  IE, I want to integrate and move source around into
>a new project, but want to automate updating the source tree from CVS.
>
>e.g.:
>  cvs -z3
>-d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.spirit.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/spirit co -P
>spirit/boost
>  cvs -z3
>-d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.spirit.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/spirit co -P
>spirit/libs
>
>puts the files in ./spirit/boost and ./spirit/libs and I want to put the
>files in ./boost and ./libs...
>
>I skimmed the man pages but found no options that looked promising. 
>Anybody know how to do this?
>
>  EBo --
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