[Coin-discuss] MaxCut and Mkc

Laszlo Ladanyi ladanyi at us.ibm.com
Mon Nov 17 15:34:19 EST 2003


Thanks Stephan!

I have modified all the *.gz files in the repository, now they should check
out fine on windows, too. If anyone finds any other file that needs to be
fixed, let us know.

Thanks,
--Laci

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Stephan Hennig wrote:

> Laszlo Ladanyi schrieb:
> 
> > Your guess is correct. When we added the compressed files to the repository
> > we forgot to mark them binary. This wasn't a problem on any unices. 
> > 
> > Is there a cvs expert out there who can tell how to change the type of a file
> > in the repository (I'm willing to manually muck with the repository)?
> > Otherwise I' ll start to read the manual...
> 
> This is what I found in Fogel/Bar: "Open Source Development with CVS"
> 
> Q: My Binary Files Are Messed Up.
> A: Did you remember to use -kb when you added them? If not, CVS might
> have performed line-end conversion or RCS keyword substitution on them.
> The easiest solution is usually to mark them as binary
> yarkon$ cvs admin -kb foo.gif
> and then commit a fixed version of the file. CVS will not corrupt the
> new commit or any of the commits thereafter, because it now knows the
> file is binary.
> 
> Though, in case something went wrong, I didn't say a word.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Stephan Hennig
> 
> 
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