Hi Tom,

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Wong) writes:

>The company I am working for have been using CVS for a few months. Recently
>we have noticed some strange data corruption problems which I would like to
>see if some of you can share some explanations with me. Basically we have
>noticed in some ascii files that a single character is changed to something
>else. Sometimes it could be from a lower case letter to upper case. So far
>we are not sure if this is a problem in CVS, or we have machines that are
>corrupting the data and checking it into CVS. All of our machines are
>running anti-virus software so we can almost eliminate that virus. Any
>answer on this will be appreciated.

I had exactly the same problem. The problem was not cvs but bad memory. Did
you do a hardware upgrade recently ?
To be sure that no bits are corrupted, use ECC memory.

>My company uses CVS client 1.10 on Windows NT4 with service patch.

Cheers,

Gerhard.
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