Recovering files from archive of CVS *,v files

Question

I trying to recover some old source code (plain text) from a bunch of files that used to be managed with CVS. I have a directory containing all of the source code files in C

Answer 1

You don't even need to use CVS. CVS was just a front end to RCS, and the *.v files are really RCS files. Just check them out. eg, if you have foo,v just execute:

co foo

and it will checkout foo from the ,v file