wow, that is good news. Let me know if there is anything I can share to help to repro the issue....
OLE Objects cause General Input/Output Error
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@esniper.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/esniper co -P esniper worked well for me. I think this bugfix is worth a new release :-)
I hit the same error message and found that the problem was that I had alerts after...