M$ systems do a lot of weird things, but it is cvs which does or does not
convert line and file endings. Something had to be done for cross-platform
support, and the choice was made to overload options already used for
keyword expansion. So, maybe M$ line endings are funky, but M$ is not
responsible for what cvs does about it.
Jerry
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> Subject: Re: bin directory
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>
> 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
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