[TSVN] external diff and changing file extensions

I am attempting to use an external diff for Microsoft Word documents.
The diff program uses the file extension on the file to determine the
type, and when it finds 2 Word docs, it starts up Word and uses its diff
and merge features. The problem is that tortoisesvn changes the file
extension on the file it pulls from the repository. For instance, if I
have the file

c:\svn\test.doc

and I attempt to do a diff on the file, tortoisesvn grabs the file from
the repo and puts it in

c:\svn\.svn\text-base\test.doc.svn-base

and then calls the external diff. My diff doesn't know what to do with
files of type .svn-base, and so it throws up an error. I've tried
telling XP to use Word to open files of type .svn-base, and that hasn't
helped, and seems like a poor generalized solution.

Is there any way that tortoisesvn could change this behavior so that it
doesn't change the file extension? Alternately, does anyone have a
working method to diff Word documents?

Thanks
Mike

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Received on Fri Feb 11 15:40:39 2005