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John Peacock wrote: > On a particular file, if I try and get log (for example to generate a > graph within WinCVS), I get the following message: > > cvs -q log cimmaron.pl (in directory D:\working\PerlCimarronProgram\) > cvs [server aborted]: unexpected '\x50' reading revision number in RCS > file W:/cvs-repository/PerlCimarronProgram/cimmaron.pl,v > > I don't know when it broke. I can apparently check out any specific > version, but I cannot get a log file (even if I specify just the last > two revisions using -r). Log read the first half of the file then filters it, so it's doing a different thing to checkout which just looks for specific data. It sounds like something is corrupted.. it should be obvious if you look at the file in a text editor - the error will be near the top probably. I'd be worried about how it got like that - there are only two ways I can think of... either some form of disk corruption or someone tried to modify it by hand & got it wrong. Neither are particularly healthy. Tony