RE: [h-e-w] File size anomoly

[Eli Daniel]

I've had the same problem with a Snap server (a relatively low-end file
serving appliance that serves up both Windows and NFS views of its files).

When opening files in emacs from the windows side, things often got
truncated.

The Snap stunk in various ways and I haven't had the problem with other
file-serving apparati so I assumed the problem was theirs.  My speculation
at the time was that Emacs is using some nonstandard method for determining
file size, and that this weird mechanism wasn't implemented properly on the
Snap.

-Eli



> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden On
> Behalf Of Ata, John
> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 2:24 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: RE: [h-e-w] File size anomoly
> 
> Hi Tom,
> 
> I like the way you think :-)  Yes, I'm using Knoware's FTPNetdrive to
> map a Linux server as a drive on my Windows box.  And you're right, the
> only reason why I do transliteration on text files is for notepad
> (wordpad?) which can't handle it properly.  Unfortunately, it is called
> in too many places by too many apps for me to ignore.
> 
> Knoware tells me that the GetFileSize()Windows function returns the
> correct file size and that somehow Emacs is doing something different to
> use the remote size.  They claim only emacs has this problem...
> 
> Thanks again for your response and for all who have responded...
> 
> Take care,
> ------
> John G. Ata
> DigitalNet, formerly known as Getronics Government Solutions
> XTS-400 Software Development
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Horsley Tom [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 8:41 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: RE: [h-e-w] File size anomoly
> 
> 
> > P.S.: I've been fighting this newline vs. CRLF thing (in various
> forms)
> >       almost as long as I've used computers.  Everybody (Perl, Samba,
> >       Cygwin, Emacs, etc.) seems to have a slightly different take on
> >       it.  Perhaps there should be a sourceforge project to collect
> best
> >       practices. . .naaah, nevermind.  Let a thousand flowers bloom.
> 
> Actually, I think all we really need is a project to provide a
> look-alike replacement for notepad.exe that is willing to display
> files without CRLF (but just LF) "correctly".
> 
> My solution to the problem has been to turn off all DOSisms in
> emacs and always read and write files in "unix" format. The only
> windows tool I've ever found that has problems with that is notepad.
> If we could just replace notepad, we could start eliminating
> all the CRs in the world, and no one would notice :-).
> 
>