Re: [Plplot-devel] non-binary .map,.fnt files, again!

[Vince D. <vi...@sa...>]

I'm not talking about file permissions.  Unix uses LF as a linefeed.
Windows uses CR-LF.  MacOS uses CR.  Therefore when cvs checks out a file
on a non-unix platform, it performs on the fly line-ending conversion.
This obviously mangles any binary files.  Cvs as some '-kb' option to
specify that a file is not ascii.  That's what we need here.

I know I could try to fix this from Windows, but it's much easier from
Unix because you automatically have a non-corrupted version of the file!
I don't.

Perhaps some notes about this can be added to Plplot's developer
documentation so we don't run into the same problem next time the whole
source tree is re-arranged ;-)

cheers,

-- Vince

<http://www.santafe.edu/~vince>


On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

> * Vince Darley <vi...@sa...> [2003-03-11 01:02]:
>
> > A year or two ago I reported a problem with the .map and .fnt files (in
> > 'lib' at that time).  They are not marked a 'binary' in cvs, and
> > consequently are corrupted when checked out on any non-unix platform.  Now
> > that they have been moved to 'data' someone has made the same mistake
> > again.
>
> I do not quite understand your problem.  Short after Joao moved the files
> from lib to data, I did the necessary changes in the file permission.  This
> was done exactly on Tue Mar 11 10:52:30 2003 (see
> http://cvs.sf.net/viewcvs.py/plplot/CVSROOT/loginfo).
>
> Indeed, this is what happens here:
>
>     $ cd data
>     $ rm -f * 2>/dev/null
>     $ cvs update >/dev/null 2>&1
>     $ ls -l globe.map
>     -rwxr-xr-x    1 rafael   rafael      33602 2003-10-28 22:17 globe.map
>
> The files *_are_* executable, but I do not know what you mean by "marked
> binary".
>
> > Can someone on unix fix this problem please?
>
> In order to "fix" problems like this in the CVS tree, one does not need to
> be on Unix.  Actually, it is done by changing the CVSROOT/loginfo file and
> this can be done from any system.  See the comments that I put at the end of
> that file.
>
> CAVEAT: USE THIS "FEATURE" VERY CAREFULLY, OTHERWISE THE CVS TREE CAN BE
> SCREWED UP.
>
> --
> Rafael
>
>
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