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Torsten, Yes, there it is. Thanks for pointing the way. That explains why some .opt files indicate they have been modified after opening a workspace even when I do nothing to the settings. Regards, Erik W. Warren Sr. Engineer - Flt. Ops. Engineering Delta Air Lines Dept. 088 P.O. Box 20706 Atlanta, GA 30320-6001 Ph (404) 715-7229 fax (404) 715-7202 erik.warren at delta-air.com -----Original Message----- From: Torsten Martinsen [mailto:torsten at tiscali.dk] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 6:34 PM To: Warren, Erik Cc: CVSNT Subject: Re: [cvsnt] OT: Which VS6 files to store in CVS? Warren, Erik wrote: >Torsten Wrote ... > >Confirmed. In fact MS explicitly discourages you from puttin .opt and others >under version control, since they are specific to the local machine. You >can look it up in the MSDN Library. > >[snip] > >Torsten, >I was looking at MSDN trying to find where they recommend not placing .opt >(and possibly other project files) under source control and I couldn't find >it. Can you provide a link to the msdn online page or the chapter and >heading where you found this information. > In the April 2001 edition of MSDN it is in Visual Studio Documentation/Visual C++ Documentation/Using Visual C++/Visual C++ Users Guide/Overview: Working with Projects/Project Workspace Files: When you create a project workspace, a project workspace file /ProjectName/.dsw is created to store information at the workspace level. Other associated files are also created, including a project file (.dsp), for building a single project, and a workspace options file (.opt). The workspace options file stores settings such as those you specify in the *Project Settings* dialog, and the layout of the project workspace. **Notes** If you work in a group, you can put the project workspace file and project files under source-code control and share them with other members of your group so that they can build the projects defined in the project workspace. However, you should not share the workspace options file (.opt) because it contains information specific to your computer. A new workspace options file is created automatically when the workspace is opened and no workspace options file is found. If you are using exported makefiles, you should not share these files. Other users can share the project workspace (.dsw) file and project (.dsp) file, but they should export the makefiles locally. -Torsten