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Subject: Re: MS-DOS path support in CVS
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> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 17:36:58 -0500
> From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
> 
> > This doesn't work with DOS batch files.  If you read it in text mode,
> > the CRs get stripped away.  After that, checking it out will write it
> > in binary mode, with Unix-style LFs, and you get an unusable batch
> > file, because COMMAND.COM won't run it.
> 
> I suspect that, in this case, the user should tag that file as binary
> so that the CRs are always preserved, no matter what.

This is a solution, but I don't like it.  Tagging a file as binary
means you lose diffs and per-line annotations, which IMHO is quite a
loss.

(This is not a theoretical problem: many GNU packages nowadays include
batch files used to configure them for DJGPP.  I hit this problem each
time I need to check in or check out those batch files from the
repective CVS repositories.)