[cvsnt] .dat binary files corrupted

[Tony Hoyle]

Drew F. Sousa wrote:
> We need to add our sample test data files as binary files to ensure that
> their contents are the same on Unix and Windows platforms.
> 
> It is not a problem to add a text file as binary. cvs add -kb 270-ex1.dat
> cvs commit -m "" 270-ex1.dat However, when it is checked out, it has its
> 0xd0xa sequence changed to 0xd0xd0xa.  This may result in it not getting
> recocognized by a parser schema.
> 
That sounds like you're using a -k option on the checkout, and 
overriding the binary-ness.

eg.

cvs add -kb foo.txt
cvs commit -m "" foo.txt
cvs update -kkv foo.txt

Will produce what you're seeing (which is actually correct, if not 
particularly useful, behaviour).

Tony