cvs repo?

[sam111]

I am new to setting up cvs repository's
I have downloaded cvs-1-11-22.zip unzipped it
made a directory for the cvsroot to go into called cvssrc
mkdir cvssvr
set cvsroot=PATH\cvssrc
cvs init (which created the below files/dir's)

09/06/2011  01:43 PM    <DIR>          .
09/06/2011  01:43 PM    <DIR>          ..
09/06/2011  01:19 PM               508 .#checkoutlist
09/06/2011  01:19 PM               775 .#commitinfo
09/06/2011  01:19 PM             1,015 .#config
09/06/2011  01:19 PM               621 .#cvswrappers
09/06/2011  01:19 PM             1,046 .#editinfo
09/06/2011  01:19 PM             1,167 .#loginfo
09/06/2011  01:19 PM             1,177 .#modules
09/06/2011  01:19 PM               576 .#notify
09/06/2011  01:19 PM               662 .#rcsinfo
09/06/2011  01:19 PM               899 .#taginfo
09/06/2011  01:19 PM             1,047 .#verifymsg
09/06/2011  01:23 PM               514 checkoutlist
09/06/2011  01:04 PM               695 checkoutlist,v
09/06/2011  01:21 PM               775 commitinfo
09/06/2011  01:04 PM               960 commitinfo,v
09/06/2011  01:21 PM             1,015 config
09/06/2011  01:04 PM             1,193 config,v
09/06/2011  01:21 PM               621 cvswrappers
09/06/2011  01:04 PM               802 cvswrappers,v
09/06/2011  01:21 PM             1,046 editinfo
09/06/2011  01:04 PM             1,225 editinfo,v
09/06/2011  01:45 PM    <DIR>          Emptydir
09/06/2011  01:43 PM               300 history
09/06/2011  01:21 PM             1,167 loginfo
09/06/2011  01:04 PM             1,341 loginfo,v
09/06/2011  01:21 PM             1,177 modules
09/06/2011  01:04 PM             1,351 modules,v
09/06/2011  01:21 PM               576 notify
09/06/2011  01:04 PM               764 notify,v
09/06/2011  01:21 PM               662 rcsinfo
09/06/2011  01:04 PM               849 rcsinfo,v
09/06/2011  01:21 PM               899 taginfo
09/06/2011  01:04 PM             1,079 taginfo,v
09/06/2011  01:04 PM                 0 val-tags
09/06/2011  01:21 PM             1,047 verifymsg
09/06/2011  01:04 PM             1,226 verifymsg,v

then I issued
cvs checkout cvsroot/Emptydir
And got all my files in the repo checkout and put into a cvsroot folder in my current directory.

Now I am trying to create files and folders and check them in
so I do cvs commit mynewfileorfolder
Which I get

cvs commit: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory
cvs commit: nothing known about `mynewfileorfolder'
cvs [commit aborted]: correct above errors first!

My main questions are how do you commit a new file to a specific place in the cvs repo.
And is their away to checkout files and folders into a different place then where you are executing the current cvs command.
(i.e files and folders go into a different directory then the current working directory you issued the cvs command in just wondering if their is a switch or if you must switch to the directory you want the files in first ?)

[alf55]

In CVS, new files and/or directories need an "add" step before they can be "commited"

cvs add mynewfileorfolder

Then they can be commited

cvs commit mynewfileorfolder