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

This normally happens when someone makes check-ins ,updates files and u r accessing the directories/files.

This worked for me- Simply close the terminal and open a new one.foo,v files will disappear and proper files would be shown.