From: twl@pobox.com ("Theodore W. Leung")
Subject: stat vs read: file sizes
5 Jul 1997 01:21:42 -0700
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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?

Thanks,

Ted
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Ted Leung	twl@pobox.com or twl@alum.mit.edu      http://pobox.com/~twl
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