Have you actually gotten it to work in WinCVS or are you talking about the 
CLI?

On Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 03:27 PM, Robert J. Clark wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:04:44 -0500
> Howard Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> OK,  I read the manual and figured out how to get the revision number
>> inserted into the source file using $Revision$.  What's the trick for
>> getting $Name$ to work.  I'm using winCVS beta 1.3.  The explorer like
>> thingie shows a tag for the file.  Is this a known bug or am I missing
>> something?
>
> The $Name$ keyword is only expanded when you do a CVS export, or check
> out with an explicit tag. $Name$ expands to the name of the tag used to
> check out the file. No tag, no expansion.
>
>   <http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_12.html#SEC99>
>
> is the definitive manual, but you may also want to check out:
>
>   <http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/>
>   <http://cvsbook.red-
> bean.com/cvsbook.html#Keyword_Substitution__RCS_Keywords_>
>
> - Rob
>


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