[cvsnt] Re: Corrupted Word Doc

[Glen Starrett]

dzielke at aep.com wrote:
> I just realized that a commit must not have gone well as I can no longer 
> open a Word document from my local sandbox. MS Word gives me a memory 
> reference error.  I was able to check out the previous revision and open 
> it, and other documents open OK as well.  Here's what the log says about 
> the file:
> 
> Rcs file : '/usr/local/cvs/doc/CogCafBranchMergeAndTag.doc,v'
> Working file : 'CogCafBranchMergeAndTag.doc'
> Head revision : 1.2
> Branch revision : 
> Locks : strict
> Access :
> Keyword substitution : 'b'
> Total revisions : 2
> Selected revisions : 0
> Description :
> 
> That's what it shows through the WinCVS interface.  If I do a status on 
> the server I get: 
> 
> File: CogCafBranchMergeAndTag.doc       Status: Up-to-date
> 
>    Working revision:    1.2     Tue Apr 26 14:54:04 2005
>    Repository revision: 1.2 
> /usr/local/cvs/doc/CogCafBranchMergeAndTag.doc,v
>    Expansion option:    b
>    Commit Identifier:   69bf426d3d8ea124
>    Sticky Tag:          (none)
>    Sticky Date:         (none)
>    Sticky Options:      -kb
>    Merge From:          (none)
> 
> Both of which look OK to me....  Is there anything else I can check before 
> just dropping back to revision 1.1 and re-doing my changes?

Try doing a log of the file, to see what happens.  There was a very 
short-lived bug in one test version that caused some binary files to get 
corrupted, have you been using any test versions of CVSNT?  What is your 
CVS server version?


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Glen Starrett