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I was able to recover one of my first Java projects in a CVS repository from 2002, but those files have text metadata mixed with the file data. Most of the text/sourcecode files have the metadata header like that:

head 1.2; access; symbols; locks; strict; comment @# @; expand @o@; 1.2 date 2004.11.13.20.36.01; author ziegfried; state dead; branches; next 1.1; 1.1 date 2002.12.11.05.49.16; author ziegfried; state Exp; branches; next ; desc @@ 1.2 log @*** empty log message *** @ text @

and the footer metadata like that:

@ 1.1 log @ouxi @ text @@

For the source code or XML files I could be able to remove manually, however I have also binary image files.

How could I remove the metadata without damaging the binary files?

I tried the use of AI tools, but I am using the free version that blocks me.

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  • Have you used the linux cvs command to simply deliver the contents? Commented Sep 20 at 16:44
  • I downloaded the entire zip file from the sourceforge repo. I wasn't able to choose how to check out. Commented Sep 20 at 17:14
  • do you know how to use CVS ? if not , search online for help (not AI bot) then yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialCVSintro.html , youTube ... Commented Sep 20 at 18:19
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    Those are CVS repository files. You need to use cvs co to checkout the source. Commented Sep 20 at 19:38
  • Those files are not available anymore on the CVS repo. What I was able to download was a zip file containg these files. Commented Sep 20 at 19:54

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I tried using Tortoise CVS on Windows 11 and had troubles with DLL's, anyway using Linux that was easy ;-)

cvs -d $repodir checkout -r $branchname $projectname

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