[ BUILD # : 200711060000 ]
[ JDK VERSION : 1.5.* ]

On Windows it is problematic if \r\n is ever expanded to \r\r\n
because then every other line is a blank line.  I have raised this
issue on the back of an email conversion in NetCAT6.0, a crucial
snippet of which I repeat below:

>> From: Maros Sandor <Maros.Sandor@Sun.COM>
>> Date: 2007/11/07 Wed PM 12:12:32 GMT
>> To: netcat@netbeans.org
>> Subject: Re: [60cat][tools] CVS giving odd files
>>
>> Well, I think the problem with Java files is that they are
committed to 
>> CVS having \r\n line endings. Windows clients then expand those \n
to 
>> \r\n thus your Windows checkouts have \r\r\n line endings. It
happens if 
>> files with \r\n (Windows) line endings are checked-in (committed)
from 
>> some other OS than Windows ... because Unix clients do not convert
\r\n 
>> to \n before commit as Windows clients do.
>>
>> Maros
>>
>> Daniel Sheppard wrote:
>>> I'm not sure.  It depends upon why Java files are getting the
extra blank 
line.  If it overcomes that problem, then yes as I could then use
NetBeans 
exclusively as my CVS interface.  My concern is that I don't know
where the 
extra lines are coming from.
>>>