[cvsnt] Converting binary files to ASCII

[Carl Zmola]

On 26 Apr 2004 at 9:48, Carl Zmola wrote:
From:           	"Carl Zmola" <carl at membersonlysoftware.com>
> 
> Christian,
> 
> I thought this was an easy question at first.
It probably is an easy question, it is just not the question I thought it 
was.

>  Normally  I have the other 
> problem.  I commint a .res file into the repository, but it thinks it is text. 
> 
> >From the docs, I think 
> cvs admin -kt unit1.dfm
> should work.
> 
> should work, but the way to check is to checkout the project in a new 
> sandbox, or delete the dfm (of course saving it incase something goes 
> wrong) and cvs update.  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 23 Apr 2004 at 19:17, Christian Hack wrote:
> 
> From:           	"Christian Hack" <christianh at edmi.com.au>
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> Date sent:      	Fri, 23 Apr 2004 19:17:30 +0800
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> > I just converted some Borland forms from their proprietary binary format to
> > a text format. Initially they were in the repository as binary files. So I
> > removed them, committed, added the new ASCII files making sure they were
> > ASCII and then committed again.
> > 
> > Subsequent checkouts still show them as binary files though. I didn't change
> > their names at all and on the second commit the new ASCII forms assumed the
> > next revisions of the old binary files.
> > 
> > How can I do this? Do I have to (or even can I?) edit the repository by
> > hand?
> > 
> > CH
> > 
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