FWIW, checkout of these things took 5+hrs, staying on the local
.freebsd.org net w/o hitting the 'net at all.
As promised,
$ time cvs ci
real 67m51.701s
user 0m1.250s
sys 0m5.345s
will be used to support SOCKS operation in the soon-to-be-released next
version of CVSup.
A tip of the hat to: Darryl Okahata, who developed the patches
necessary to make the SOCKS library work with Modula-3's multithreaded
I/O system.