[cvsnt] Blank lines and strange characters in text files

[Carl Zmola]

Jeff Harmon wrote:

>We have a problem where there are some text files that end up with blank
>lines (every other line) and strange block looking characters.  The
>files were committed using cygwin instead of cvsnt, but they are DOS
>formatted files.  When I open the file that was checked out using cvsnt
>in cygwin the files show ^M characters at the end of every line.  If I
>check the file out using cygwin cvs, the file is fine in any editor I
>use.  
> 
>Does anyone have any experience with something like this?  Is there a
>cvsnt option I can use to make this problem go away?
>  
>
This is a CRLF conversion problem.   I rename the cvs that comes with 
cygwin to prevent this sort of thing.

Unix uses CR (or ^J or 0x0A) as a line ending
Mac uses LF ( or ^M or 0x0D) as a line ending
Dos-windos uses CRLF.

What can happen is you get a CRCRLF line ending or a CRLFLF line 
ending.  You can do this with some cygwin tool, but
I usually write a c program to do the conversion. 

Wordpad seems to convert single lf's to crlf. so editing and saving in 
wordpad might help a little.
You might also try checking out with cygwin and commiting from cvsnt.   
(reversing the process that messed them up).
Or if the changes are minor, you could just revert to the old document. 

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