Subversion Brltty refuses to download

[lorenzo princenet sytes net]

I am trying to download the latest version of Brltty from subversion so 
I can use Gnopernicus with braille support.  Unfortunately, the command 
it says to use on the brltty website:

svn checkout svn://mielke.cc/main/brltty

produces the following error message:

svn: malformed network data
svn: malformed network data

Yes, for some reason, it really does repeat it twice.  Is there 
something I did wrong, is the network down, or am I using the wrong 
version of subversion?  I am using subversion 0.17.1 (r4503).
		Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

					Lorenzo
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    }
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