Why only files are checked out and not the directories?

[Zsolt Koppany]

Hi,

I have a directory structure like below (an example):

src/dir/sd1/1.c
src/dir/sd1/2.c
src/dir/sd2/a.c
src/dir/sd2/b.c
src/dir/readme

checkout -d $CVSROOT (points to src) -l dir

and I get ONLY readme. I would like also get sd1 and sd2 (but not their 
content).

What my goal is: I would like to get the list of files and directories under 
src/dir. I need a solution for cvs-1.11 thus I cannot use cvs ls.

Can somebody help?

Zsolt