Specifying image files as BINARY so they don't get CVS tags?

[Cyde Weys]

I ran into a strange issue today with a project I'm working on.  It's a
Java applet and it has some image files in it (.gifs specifically).
One of the other developers checked out the source tree, tried to
compile, and it turns out that all of the images were corrupt.  Upon
looking at the images in the CVS repository with a text editor it's
obvious what has happened: a bunch of CVS header data was added to the
beginning of the file, at which point followed the gobbledygook binary
which actually specifies the image.

How do I setup my CVS server so that it automatically knows that things
like .gif, .jpg, etc., are binary and should not have CVS headers
inserted into them?  Would it be possible to have the headers stored
outside of the binary file so that we can still keep versioning info on
the images if they happen to change, but yet they still actually
function?

Thanks!