Problems with CVS

Daniel Taupin <[email protected]> Sun, 01 Dec 2002 14:33:39 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.latex.latex2rtf.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
 Since Scott has annouced that corrections (e.g. for description
environment) were posted in CVS, I tried to get the updated files.

 Unfortunately, when one depresses download, the file is not downloaded
but posted on the screen in a new window.
This results in several terrible messes:
  1) copying/pasting the posted screen into a Memacs new file tranforms
<tab> to multiple spaces. Therefore
"diff" cannot find the actual differences (for checking) since most
lines have differences due to <tab> (in the file coming from *.tar.gz)
differing from its transcription into spaces.
  2) moreover, the new file hase the date of its transfer/pasting and
NOT its original time. Thus, if I have two files, I have no means of
knowing which one is the most recent.

---> when one click on "download" it should ne downloaded as is, and NOT
posted on the screen
---> better: propose viewing the file, and DISTINCTLY propose
downloading each updated file, not as is, but wrapped either in a
*.tar.gz, or in a *.zip, since both wrappings keep the generation date,
and not the transfer date.

Note I also tried to save the global file with heading comments, but it
is in HTML, so that the saved file is unuseable...
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