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My binary files are messed up
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Did you remember to use -kb when you added them?  If not, CVS may have
performed line-end conversion or RCS keyword substitution on them.  The
easiest solution is usually to mark them as binary

     floss$ cvs admin -kb foo.gif

and then commit a fixed version of the file.  CVS will not corrupt the
new commit or any of the commits thereafter, because it now knows the
file is binary.