Problem with files in the Attic

[Filip Miletic]

Greetings everyone!

Please help me resolve the following problem. CVS is 1.11 and OS is 
cygwin. :) The repository is on local drive.

I am working on a piece of software for which I need to have 4 equivocal 
branches from the main trunk. I decided to go about this the following
way.

First I imported the original code and tagged it: cvs tag original .

Then I applied a patch to make the first modification and tagged it:
cvs tag -b oc .

However, after this, an attempt to checkout any of the tagged revisions
results
in an error which says something like:

cannot chdir to /path.../Attic: no such file or directory.

The checkout cannot proceed afterwards. I have a feeling I am doing
something
wrong, but could not find any hint in Cederquist. Actually, I followed
the
instructions mentioned there to create branches etc. but they all failed
with the
above message.

Any help is appreciated.

f.