RE: handling of MsWord-Documents in CVS ?

2001-05-18 Thread Echlin, Michael
not at work I use either emacs or sitepad and save everything as HTML or SGML depending on how it will be published. Mike. -Original Message- From: Eric Siegerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: May 17, 2001 2:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: handling of MsWord-Documents in CVS

RE: handling of MsWord-Documents in CVS ?

2001-05-18 Thread Patrick Lynch
Of Eric Siegerman Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 2:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: handling of MsWord-Documents in CVS ? On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:16:31AM -0400, Echlin, Michael wrote: The problem with binaries (and word files are binaries [...]) [...] 6: hack cvs so that it uuencodes

RE: handling of MsWord-Documents in CVS ?

2001-05-18 Thread Echlin, Michael
: handling of MsWord-Documents in CVS ? Good morning, I've been reading the traffic in regard to placing Word documents under WinCvs and CVS and I'm getting concerned. We've just started using WinCvs in order to place our source code under version control. I was able to checkin and checkout some

Re: handling of MsWord-Documents in CVS ?

2001-05-18 Thread Todd Denniston
Patrick Lynch wrote: Good morning, I've been reading the traffic in regard to placing Word documents under WinCvs and CVS and I'm getting concerned. SNIP Bottom line: with this 'scenario', will WinCvs support Microsoft Word documents stored as 'binaries'? Thank you, Pat I don't

RE: handling of MsWord-Documents in CVS ?

2001-05-18 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Friday, May 18, 2001 at 08:44:08 (-0400), Echlin, Michael wrote: ] Subject: RE: handling of MsWord-Documents in CVS ? My preferred way is the archive by reference as done by MKSSI and then using m$word to diff the files. I really like that phrase archive by reference. That is in fact

RE: handling of MsWord-Documents in CVS ?

2001-05-18 Thread Echlin, Michael
, 2001 12:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: handling of MsWord-Documents in CVS ? [ On Friday, May 18, 2001 at 08:44:08 (-0400), Echlin, Michael wrote: ] Subject: RE: handling of MsWord-Documents in CVS ? My preferred way is the archive by reference as done by MKSSI and then using m$word

RE: handling of MsWord-Documents in CVS ?

2001-05-18 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Friday, May 18, 2001 at 13:47:46 (-0400), Echlin, Michael wrote: ] Subject: RE: handling of MsWord-Documents in CVS ? Since you can't have a directory and a file with the same name in the same directory creating a filename,v file with the log history in it then having a filename

RE: handling of MsWord-Documents in CVS ?

2001-05-17 Thread Echlin, Michael
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: May 16, 2001 3:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: handling of MsWord-Documents in CVS ? Hello, I'm looking for information, experiences on handling of MsWord-Documents in CVS ? In my opinion Msword Documents need to be treated as binary files. Every hints

Re: handling of MsWord-Documents in CVS ?

2001-05-17 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:16:31AM -0400, Echlin, Michael wrote: The problem with binaries (and word files are binaries [...]) [...] 6: hack cvs so that it uuencodes and decodes binary files on checkin and checkout. This wouldn't help at all (the deltas would still be huge), and it would

handling of MsWord-Documents in CVS ?

2001-05-16 Thread Ferdinand Schaefer
Hello, I'm looking for information, experiences on handling of MsWord-Documents in CVS ? In my opinion Msword Documents need to be treated as binary files. Every hints in this context are well appreciated. Thanks, Ferdi

Re: handling of MsWord-Documents in CVS ?

2001-05-16 Thread Mike Castle
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 09:45:54PM +0200, Ferdinand Schaefer wrote: In my opinion Msword Documents need to be treated as binary files. Correct. Which means the archive grows. And you can't easily track what changes were made between documents. Dump word. Use TeX or roff. mrc --

Re: handling of MsWord-Documents in CVS ?

2001-05-16 Thread Christian Robottom Reis
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Mike Castle wrote: Dump word. Use TeX or roff. That's _sane advice_. Although do note that MS' shift to XML-based formats could make this change. I'm not sure if the change information would make much sense, but it's a start. Take care, -- /\/\ Christian Reis, Senior