Laird Nelson writes:
>
> ?? I thought marking a file as binary (during add *or* via cvs admin)
> simply turned off keyword expansion. What else do Micro$oft "systems"
> do that is different from this?
They convert between the external end-of-line characters (<CR><LF>) and
the internal end-of-line character ('\n'), and they also interpret ^Z
(<SUB>) as end-of-file when reading (they may or may not write ^Z at
end-of-file when writing). Both of these can cause serious data loss
when applied to binary files.
-Larry Jones
I obey the letter of the law, if not the spirit. -- Calvin
