Re: Diff treats files as text after they have been flagged -kb

2003-09-08 Thread Larry Jones
Eric Siegerman writes: > > Another possibility is that "cvs diff" might ignore the -kb > setting, and just do whatever vanilla "diff" would do given the > same files; which is, to do the diff as text-mode if the files > "look like" text, and as binary-mode if they "look like" binary. That's the o

Re: Diff treats files as text after they have been flagged -kb

2003-09-08 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 02:49:25PM -0400, Jack Dodds wrote: > I used cvs admin to attach the -kb flag to all the .WPJ and > .TGT files both in the repository and the sandbox, expecting > this to fix the problem. Are you sure it affected the sandbox? See what "cvs stat" says about the files in que

Re: Diff treats files as text after they have been flagged -kb

2003-09-07 Thread luke . kendall
On 5 Sep, Jack Dodds wrote: > However this leaves the original .WPJ and .TGT "text" files. I > used cvs admin to attach the -kb flag to all the .WPJ and .TGT > files both in the repository and the sandbox, expecting this > to fix the problem. (This lead to some CR/LF problems when >

Diff treats files as text after they have been flagged -kb

2003-09-05 Thread Jack Dodds
I'm looking for some help with a problem in binary file handling. We use CVS to control a collection (dozens) of Watcom C/C++ software projects under Windows 98. For most of our work, we interface to CVS through WinCVS 1.2. WinCVS 1.2 incorporates CVS 1.10, if I understand correctly. The Watcom