From: sos@prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: stat vs read: file sizes 5 Jul 1997 06:56:28 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BC8965.10B54A70.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos> Original-To: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" , "'Theodore W. Leung'" Encoding: 17 TEXT Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com 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? -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia Looking for a job - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".