From:	sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject:	RE: stat vs read: file sizes
5 Jul 1997 06:56:28 -0700 :
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	"'Theodore W. Leung'"
	<twl AT pobox DOT com>
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Theodore W. Leung wrote:
> I've been working on porting glimpse to GNU-Win32, and I've run into a
> problem.  glimpse uses a technique where stat is called to determine the
> file size, S, and then read is called to read S bytes from the file.  The 
> problem is that reading S bytes from the file returns a size T less than S.
> This number appears to be off by the number of lines in the file (as
> reported by NTEmacs).  I'm guessing that there is some CR/LF mapping going
> on behind the
> scenes.  Short of rewriting the glimpse code, is there a way/mode to handle
> this?

Use binary mode mounts to avoid the problem. Do you really need cr/lfs instead of single lf?

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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
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