Update keeps breaking my commits in WinCVS.

[Nicholas]

Hi All,

I've got a repository locally on my Win2K box. If I modify a file then
go into WinCVS I can commit it, without checking it in (is this as it
should be?)

The file then disappears from WinCVS (leaving me no way to check it
out again, yet I can just start editing it in a third party
application).

When I update the file in, the update works fine. Yet if i try to
commit the updated file the commit fails. Is this right? Should I just
be committing these files without updating them?

And why do the committed files disappear from WinCVS's file viewer?

P.S. how does checking-in correspond to 'update' and 'commit'.


Yours,
Broken Hearted.