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Re: binary file's import & checkout
From: |
Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: binary file's import & checkout |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Jul 2001 12:36:23 -0400 (EDT) |
Martin Eismann writes:
>
> At this point this checked out file was corrupt when invoking my
> Form-Editor!
[...]
> As you can see the file has been stored with keyword substitution "b"
> (meaning binary, or not?) !
>
> So I wonder why my frm-file is not useable any more...?!?!
VMS has record structured files rather than the byte stream files that
CVS was designed for. Most likely, the actual record structure of form
files is significant (at least to the form editor) and CVS doesn't
preserve it. Isn't there a way to save form definitions in a text
format?
-Larry Jones
It COULD'VE happened by accident! -- Calvin