potential error in 'A Quick Start'

[inkwire at thegoldenear.org]

hi. on this page:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch01s07.html

the command:
svn checkout file:///path/to/repos/trunk project

doesn't work. this could be my fault but I don't _think_ it is. I just
jumped straight in with this quick start page and found it very useful,
but it seems to me the above command should be:

svn checkout file:///path/to/repos project

p