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On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 21:15:57 +0200, "patrick goovaerts" <patrick at pgoovaerts.be> 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)? > A binary file is stored and retrieved as-is (byte by byte). A text file (ascii) is stored with Unix line endings on the server and are retrieved with the line endings appropriate for the client operating system. So a file checked out to a Linux and a Windows machine will be different by the line endings (LF on Linux, CRLF on Windows). A binary file that has been added as text will get all CRLF sequences changed to LF when stored into CVS and thus the file is destroyed! A text file added as binary will not be possible to diff or merge because CVS cannot handle binary files that way. /Bo Berglund