i cannot help you with your problem, but:
Julian Peterson wrote:
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@pure-data.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ pure-data co -P externals
this is definitely outdated.
the pd-community project at sourceforge has switched from CVS to subversion 2 months ago. see the documentation at puredata.info for more details on how to check out the newest sources.
fmasdr IOhannes