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Subject: Re: less.exe v481-1 cannot seek to EOF in CRLF file; current cygwin32, Win10 only.
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From: Marco Atzeri <marco DOT atzeri AT gmail DOT com>
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 17:01:45 +0100
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please reply on the list
and Bottom post please.

On 22/01/2016 16:26, KARL BOTTS wrote:
>> How largish ?
>
> Any size larger than a few meg.  That is, any size that takes more than a few
> milliseconds to seek to the end, I think.

We will need someone with W10 to test it and confirm it.
On W7 I have no issue at all with 250MB file

How long are the lines ?


>> can you try to update to latest ?
>> You have
>> less                 471-1                            OK
>> cygwin               2.1.0-1                          OK
>
>
> Not so.  From the 'cygcheck -s -v -r' output file that was attached to my bug
> report:
>
> 0 /c/ToCygwin$ egrep '^(cygwin|less)' Karl2.cygcheck.out
> cygwin                                2.3.1-1                 OK
> less                                  481-1                   OK
>

sorry, reading the wrong file.


> Did you look at the attached files?  I tried to keep the body of the email
> small, per instructions.  But there is info attached.
>
> ---
> Karl Botts, kdbotts AT usa DOT net
>
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: 04:48 AM CST, 01/21/2016
> From: Marco Atzeri
> Subject: Re: less.exe v481-1 cannot seek to EOF in CRLF file; current
> cygwin32, Win10 only.
>
> On 20/01/2016 19:32, KARL BOTTS wrote:
>> In less.exe, when I use either the G or F commands on a largish CRLF file,
> it
>> responds:
>
> How largish ?
>
> On Cygwin 32 bit and W7-64 I see no problem with 224 Mbytes
>
>
>>      Cannot seek to that file position  (press RETURN)
>>
>> in the bottom "command editing line" of the display.
>>
>> No problem on LF-only files.  Does happen with either mintty or
>> Windows-Console,
>> launched from either bash or cmd.exe.
>>
>> Two files are attached: Karl2.cygcheck.out, which is the 'cygcheck -s -v
> -r'
>> output,
>> and LessBugMoreInfo.txt, which contains background info and some
> speculation.
>>
>> ---
>> Karl Botts


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