checkout fails to put files in working directory

[sharstern119]

Hi

I'm relatively new to CVS and am having this problem:

I execute the cvs checkout command, and a working directory is 
created. But none of the files in the repository are in my working 
directory. My working directory just contains the directory 
structure. 

The only exception to this is new files that I've added and 
committed to the repository since it was built. These get updated 
and placed in my working directory when I run checkout.

Does anyone know what's going on? I'm using CVS version 1.9.22 on a 
Red Hat system.

Thanks,
Sharon