CVS - CO single file w/o dirpath

[Lamar Seifuddin]

All,

 I want to check out one file at least five directories deep,.

 I know I have to specify the full path to the file in the
 checkout command.

 But, I just want the file, not the directory path.

 what is the format of the checkout command?

 The documentation on using the -N with the -d
 is unclear to me.

 This is what I did:

 cvs checkout -r REL-2-3-0-d3 -dN src/archgen/README

 This created a N directory with the file README

 ?????   duh

 probably real simple........I just can't see it.

forgive me in advance.
:-)

thank you,

Lamar