Problems with CVS TAG recursive

[a1_nocrap_exh]

I want to do a tag of every file currently in a workarea so I tried to
use:

> cvs tag -R tag_name .

However it exits the error:

cvs [tag aborted]: could not chdir

before it has finished tagging all the files.

The reason is there is a directory in the CVS repository that I do not
have in my work area and that I do not want to tag.

Is there anyway round this? Some sort of option which makes TAG
continue and not abort?