[Python-Dev] *.dsp and *.dsw are treated by CVS as binary. Why? (original) (raw)

Moshe Zadka Moshe Zadka moshez@math.huji.ac.il
Sun, 13 Aug 2000 11:15:15 +0300 (IDT)

On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Tim Peters wrote:

[Trent Mick] > I think that putting them in binary mode is a misleading clue that > people should not muck with them. The are text files.

But you don't know that. They're internal Microsoft files in an undocumented, proprietary format. You'll find nothing in MS docs guaranteeing they're text files, but will find the direst warnings against attempting to edit them. MS routinely changes scads of things about DevStudio-internal files across releases.

Hey, I parsed those beasts, and edited them by hand.

of-course-my-co-workers-hated-me-for-that-ly y'rs, Z.

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