RE: CVS screwing up Word documents

[Neil Aggarwal]

Mark:

The CYGWIN environment variable did the trick.

Thank you,
        Neil


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Priest [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 9:44 PM
> To: Neil Aggarwal; 'CVS-II Discussion Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: CVS screwing up Word documents
> 
> 
> Neil,
> 
> If the keyword expansion is not correct for your Word files 
> then one of two
> things must be happening.  Either you are using the -k option with the
> checkout, add, or update commands or there is something wrong 
> with your
> cvswrappers file.  Make sure that you are not passing a -k flag when
> checking out or updating files (or using the -k flag on adds) since it
> becomes "sticky" when it used with these two commands.  Alternatively,
> specifically use -kb explicitly whenever you are adding 
> binary files such as
> Word documents.
> 
> Cygwin programs can operate on files in either binary or text mode as
> explained in 
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-textbinary.html.  You
> might want to try adding "tty binmode" to your CYGWIN  
> environment variable
> to ensure that Cygwin programs are always using binary mode.  
> If tty is not
> set then I think that the Cygwin cvs client might treat 
> standard input and
> output in text mode rather than binary mode which would 
> corrupt the cvs
> protocol.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Neil Aggarwal" <address@hidden>
> To: "'Mark Priest'" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "'CVS-II Discussion Mailing List'" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 9:40 PM
> Subject: RE: CVS screwing up Word documents
> 
> 
> > Mark:
> >
> > > This should not happen if the cvswrappers file has that line
> > > and your Word
> > > docs have a .doc extension.
> >
> > That is what we have.
> >
> > > You can use the log command to
> > > verify that the
> > > Keyword substitution is set to 'b' for those files.
> >
> > I did that.  The keyword substituion is set to
> > kv, which is wrong.
> >
> > > Are you
> > > using Cygwin by
> > > any chance?  If so it is possible that you are running into a
> > > problem with
> > > line ending conversions from Cygwin.
> >
> > Yes, we are using cygwin to tunnel the cvs thru ssh.
> >
> > Do you know how to work around this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Neil
> >
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> > Neil Aggarwal, JAMM Consulting, (972)612-6056, 
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