Re: Working with MS files : doc, xls

[Mike Pumford]

Ko08nz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to know whether it is possible that CVS is working with MS
> files ( doc, xls ) ?
> And it 's not, with which application that i could do this...?
CVS will cope with files in this format as long as your users remember 
to use -kb when adding the files. Failure to do this will lead to 
documents and spreadsheets ending up being 6bytes long when you check 
them out from the server.

You can get CVS to do this automatically by creating a 
CVSROOT/cvswrappers file containing the extensions you want to handle 
this way. (See the manual for the format of the file).

All of this is assuming you are using the standard command line CVS 
client. TortoiseCVS and WinCVS handle things differently by detecting 
these files and automatically adding the -kb flags for you.

Mike

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