> Does this happen often with binary files in CVS? The could cause > problems with the dxsamples in the future (possibly). >
Ummm... it never happen to me with Cygnus Sourceware server. I often download and upload files to Cygnus Sourceware servers, binary and text both. But with OpenDX CVS, I always gey help.tar and html.tar as corrupted files. Suhaib > David > > >"Suhaib M. Siddiqi" wrote: > > > >> > Invalid data: error 0 reading binary data; 3 items successfully read > >> > (33 expected)/array staring at data offset 1280/file > >> > 'usr/local/dx/fonts/variable.dx' line 82. > >> > >> Oh this problem I had too, but soon discovered the files > >> somehow were corrupted during CVS download. Doing > >> a CVS checkout in a fresh directory > > > >Is it possible that CVS tries to 'patch' the binary files upon 'cvs > >update' thereby introducing nonsense characters? > > > > Christian > > -- > ............................................................................ . > David L. Thompson The University of Montana > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Science Department > http://www.cs.umt.edu/u/dthompsn Missoula, MT 59812 > Work Phone : (406)257-8530
