Ed Skinner wrote:

>     I'm going to be working on some binary files (OOffice writer, 
>presentation and spread-sheet files) along with some other developers. We're 
>in widely separated locations (AZ, CA and MD) and the files will be on a 
>machine to which we all have a "mount" (via VPN).
>     It's been a while but I don't think CVS will keep us from editing the 
>same file at the same time and, because the files are "binary", the merge 
>tools won't help us.
>     What's the best way to go? (So far we're all on Linux, at least.)
>     Thanks for any suggestions.
>
>  
>
Okay first OO has its own version control (go to File -> Version). Next 
OO doesn't save as a binary its really just compressed XML you turn 
compression off at Tools->Options->Load/Save. (remember that if you 
embed any objects that unlike MS office they aren't really made part of 
the document there is just a link to the object). And lastly subversion 
is supposed to work great with binary files. I'm using subversion now 
but honestly haven't used it with binary files yet.

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