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Re: [h-e-w] Problem with end of file marker for NTEmacs v21.x on Win2k?
From: |
Jason Rumney |
Subject: |
Re: [h-e-w] Problem with end of file marker for NTEmacs v21.x on Win2k? |
Date: |
20 Jun 2002 19:44:18 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
"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.