[Cvsnt] moving repository from Unix to Windows 2000

Bo Berglund bo.berglund at telia.com
Fri May 10 16:46:08 BST 2002


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On Fri, 10 May 2002 14:38:26 +0000 (UTC), atetrault at attbi.com wrote:

>Bo,
>
>Your installation instructions were excellent.  I thank
>you so much for your help.
>
>I moved my respository from UNIX to Windows 2000 by
>tar'ing it on UNIX, FTP'ing the tar file to the W2K box
>in binary FTP mode, then using WinZIP to unbundle the
>tar file.  It seems to work okay, except that binary
>files (.doc, .pdf, .zip, etc.) are corrupt when I check
>them out.  I tried checking them out using command-line
>cvs commands on the same system that holds the cvsnt
>repository.  I also tried checking them out with WinCVS
>from another system.
>
>When I check them out from the original repository on
>the UNIX box, the work fine.
>
>Any suggestions?  I assume I did something wrong in how
>I transferred the repository from the UNIX file system
>to the Windows 2000 file system.
>
>Thank you very much again.
>
>

I am not so good at Unix stuff (understatement!) so I can't really
help in detail, but given that ALL files from the cvs repository were
transferred from Unix to CVSNT then the problem you see really should
not happen. A binary file in the repository is marked in the RCS file
(filename,v) as a binary and as such the checkout should be exactly
binary so there should be no corruptions.
If you like I can look at this a bit more if you zip and email me one
of the binary files (a pdf for example) from the repository (what I
mean here is the document.pdf,v file).
Then I can put it into my CVSNT server and look at what is going on.



/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)


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