Providing us with the error message will help.
Some things to look for...
Add should be done in the directory that contains the file, I believe.
Import should be done from a temp directory with the -I ! param set in order
to reset the files to ignore (whatever that means). Here's an example:
You have in CVS a directory structure, External/Java.
You want to import Ant such that the structure will look like
External/Java/Ant (with all of the subdirs and files contained in Ant).
mv <current_Location>/Ant /tmp/Ant
cd /tmp/Ant
cvs import -I ! -m "Importing Ant into External code base" External/Java
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-Jason
