Re: [h-e-w] Problem with end of file marker for NTEmacs v21.x on Win2k?

[Jason Rumney]

"John Lee" <address@hidden> writes:

> I ran through the FAQ and browsed a few months of posts, but didn't
> see this posted, and was wondering if anyone else had experienced
> this.  The behavior I'm seeing (and I'm just hypothesizing here) is
> that the end of file marker isn't being marked right when the file
> shrinks in size, and so what gets written to disk is actually whatever
> is in my buffer, plus whatever data is on disk at the end of file, if
> the file is smaller than the original.  Rather, it appears that my
> buffer saves correctly, but doesn't fix the end of file to denote that
> the file is smaller, leaving extra data from disk in the file.  This
> is all under Windows 2000, using both 21.1 and 21.2 versions.

Is this on a networked drive?  There have been reports in the past
about this behaviour, all previous reports involved networked drives
on Unix machines.  I have not seen any suggestion that previous
versions of Emacs worked before though.