Re: Locate: Negative compression-ratios.

[Bas van Gompel]

Op Sun, 2 Jan 2005 10:04:41 +0000 schreef James Youngman
in <address@hidden>:
:  On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 09:29:21PM +0100, Bas van Gompel wrote:
: > Hi,
: >
: > Currently, negative compression-ratios are displayed as huge numbers
:
:  Nasty.   How did you achieve a negative compression ratio though?

Same database as in the other mail:

echo '12
a' |frcode >testdb

: > Following patch fixes it.
:
:  I was a bit concerned about the cast to int in your patch, so I have
:  installed the patch below instead.

Fine by me. (Better, even.)

: > BTW: How do you manage the ChangeLog? I don't see anything recent in
: > there.
:
:  I periodically use "vc-update-change-log" in Emacs.  It automatically
:  generates the ChangeLog from the CVS checkin comments.  That means the
:  ChangeLog is always up to date in release tarballs, and at other times
:  might be or might not be up to date, and will often lag by a dozen or
:  so checkin comments.  Is this a significant problem?

No, just curious. (ChangeLog is easy to find out what's going on in the
tree, though. (cvs log does not make it easy (IMHO) to find the (most
recent) changes in sequence, when they are across files.))

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