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

[Moshe Zadka]

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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