Notes for CVS Concurent version system
A message such as
2402/path/to/repository: no such repository
means that your client is older than version 1.11.x and doesn't understand host:port being part of the pserver path (eg cvs -d :pserver:hostname:2402/path/to/repository). You need to upgrade.
Take the sticky tag off the file with:
$cvs update -A maindumpswitch.ihtml
you can 'update' a file to stdout using -p
$cvs update -r 1.14 -p index.php