Re: zip-mode mis-displays large files

[Kevin Rodgers]

Sam Steingold wrote:
> GNU Emacs 22.0.50.19 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
>  of 2006-04-21 on quant8
>
>  when I open a large zip file, I get a buffer:
>
>  
> M Filemode      Length  Date         Time      File
> - ----------  --------  -----------  --------  ---------------
>   -rw-rw-r--  43554195  22-Feb-2006  16:21:02  no-match-2.log
>   -rw-rw-r--  23450570  22-Feb-2006  13:04:32  no-match-1.log
>   -rw-rw-r--   1429515  27-Feb-2006  12:28:14  no-match-5.log
>   -rw-rw-r--  13436029  24-Feb-2006  13:58:28  no-match-3.log
>   -rw-rw-r--   1098419  24-Feb-2006  14:50:58  no-match-4.log
>   -rw-rw-r--   3229672   8-Mar-2006  12:27:24  no-match-6.log
>   -rw-rw-r--     78222   8-Mar-2006  16:07:08  no-match-7.log
>   -rw-rw-r--   2125479   9-Mar-2006  10:15:20  no-match-8.log
>   -rw-rw-r--    795894   9-Mar-2006  11:29:06  no-match-9.log
>   -rw-rw-r--   1150734   9-Mar-2006  16:01:32  no-match-10.log
>   -rw-rw-r--   4312779  13-Mar-2006  16:20:16  no-match-11.log
>   -rw-rw-r--   3441758  16-Mar-2006  09:05:30  no-match-12.log
>   -rw-rw-r--   4846691  17-Mar-2006  16:12:34  no-match-13.log
>   -rw-rw-r--   8225778  21-Mar-2006  16:26:42  no-match-14.log
>   -rw-rw-r--   6936304  23-Mar-2006  16:03:52  no-match-15.log
>   -rw-rw-r--   6654086  27-Mar-2006  14:42:10  no-match-16.log
>   -rw-rw-r--   4730025  29-Mar-2006  16:40:02  no-match-17.log
>   -rw-rw-r--  -174564534   4-Apr-2006  12:27:04  no-match-18.log
>   -rw-rw-r--   1955745   5-Apr-2006  09:00:16  no-match-19.log
>   -rw-rw-r--   7809176   5-Apr-2006  16:20:36  no-match-20.log
>   -rw-rw-r--   2328621   6-Apr-2006  17:25:24  no-match-21.log
>   -rw-rw-r--    959910   7-Apr-2006  16:20:50  no-match-22.log
>   -rw-rw-r--   2142728  17-Apr-2006  09:15:32  no-match-23.log
>   -rw-rw-r--  105777607  17-Apr-2006  16:55:06  no-match-24.log
>   -rw-rw-r--  66358753  18-Apr-2006  16:19:50  no-match-25.log
> - ----------  --------  -----------  --------  ---------------
>               142264156                         25 files
>
> note the negative length of the "no-match-18.log" file.

,----[ C-h v most-positive-fixnum RET ]
| most-positive-fixnum is a variable defined in `C source code'.
| Its value is 268435455
|
| Documentation:
| The largest value that is representable in a Lisp integer.
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Kevin Rodgers
Sr. Software Engineer, IHS