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On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 22:50:54 -0700, "Siegfried Heintze" <siegfried at heintze.com> wrote: >I have a large file called Outlook.pst. I created it using the "cvs -d >:pserver:siegfried at 127.0.0.1/CVS_Outlook add -kBox Outlook.pst". Good heavens! Don't ever add an Outlook pst file to CVS! It will probably kill the system totally. Do you realize that a pst file will grow and grow and grow and if you add it to CVS the RCS file in the repository will grow even quicker, it will add the size of the pst file every time you commit. My pst files (I have several) are all in the renge 500 Mb to 1.6 Mb and having them inside CVS would slow CVS to a crawl if it could even cope with them. For each operation CVS needs to load about two copies of the RCS file into physical RAM, do you have that amount of RAM on your server? We are talking multi-gigabytes of RAM now. A binary file is *possible* to handle in CVS but is not what CVS was built for. CVS is really for handfling software *source* files in text format.... /Bo (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)