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Gill Ernst wrote: > Hi, > > We have imported several very old C sources and running > during the import in a very special problem. > > All files including a 0x1A (control Z) the file is truncated > from including the 0x1A character till end of the file > (please don't tell me I should remove control characters). > If you want to treat these as text files, then you must, since ^Z is not valid in the middle of a text file (not in DOS either.. not sure how you managed to create them.. none of the standard tools will do it). That is the EOF character - it's not CVS that is interpreting it it's the C library (you can see the same using the 'type' command from the command line, or even 'copy' probably truncates in this instance). The alternative if you really must keep the ^Z is treat them as binary files. Tony