[cvsnt] ascii/binary property

David Somers dsomers at omz13.com
Fri Aug 4 20:28:33 BST 2006


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patrick goovaerts wrote:

> Sorry, let's try to rephrase my question:
> 
> I know what binary files are, I know what ascii files are but what effect
> will it have when I change the ascii property to binary?
> What is the difference between the binary/ascii properties (beside of
> being ascii-text files and binary files)?

Binary files are stored in the rcs files in a different manner... you can't
diff them but they are stored as (efficient) deltas.

Greetings from (cold and wet*) Luxembourg

* wet as in 40 l/m2 in the past 12 hours!

David Somers
typographer/programmer/whatever



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