Eclipse not letting me edit a file under CVS

[me-5yx05kfkO/aqeI1yJSURBw at public.gmane.org (Matthew Gillen)]

Doug wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> Problem resolved even though not understood.
> 
> I was reading up about Tiger Woods for a little comedy bit, and was
> reminded of mulligans.  This code is under CVS.  If something is
> messed up, move the directory, run cvs update, and see if the problem
> goes away.  It did.

I have a vague recollection of the vcs plugin for Eclipse opening a file
read-only when it had a conflict or somesuch.

If you run 'cvs status' on the old version, what does it say?

Matt