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From: | "Herb Martin" <HerbM AT LearnQuick DOT Com> |
To: | "'Cygwin List'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> |
Subject: | RE: stat file -- cygwin vs. Windows size? |
Date: | Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:08:17 -0500 |
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> >My suspicion is that stat is counting cr-lf as two > characters but the > >input routines are treating these as one. > > > >If the file has about 20 lines, then that's 20 missing characters??? > > > Yes, this is right. And yes, this could be the cause of the > situation you're noticing. Is there a standard Cygwin 'idiom' or function for dealing with this mismatch, or should I just re-invent the wheel. Seems like I read (skimmed) something related to this in the Cygwin manual, probably near the back in the programming introduction.... I know I picked up the concept somewhere (somewhere recent that is, as I have dealt with this across at least five different OS conventions but not recently and specifically on Cygwin.) -- Thanks, Herb -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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