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Siegfried Heintze wrote: > Shortly after creating my repository, I imported the entire directory > structure of my web site which included some Microsoft MDB files. These are > not text files. > > (1) Assuming I can salvage my repository, can I change an existing file from > type text to binary? Yes. cvs admin -kb filename will change the file type. There are some steps about when you committed & checked out that I don't recall though. You might need to get a good copy and commit it after changing the file type, I'm not sure. > > (2) Assuming I cannot salvage my repository and have to create a new one, > how does one import an entire directory that contains a mixture of text and > binary files? Can CVSNT be programmed to make this distinction based on the > file's extension? Yes. See the docs on "cvswrappers" file. > > Siegfried > -- Glen Starrett