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

[Dr Francis J. Wright]

You could try find-file-literally.  However, I'm not convinced that will solve the problem.  If a file is changed after you have opened it in Emacs, you can use revert-buffer to update it.  But, if some networking software is modifying the file in some strange way outside of Emacs then I don't know what you can do about that.  If you're accessing the remote file using ange-ftp then it should (I think) use binary mode and so not change the file.  What do you think is doing the "end-of-line transliterations"?

 

Francis

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From: Ata, John

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Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 10:53 PM

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

Hi,

When emacs reads a file into a buffer, it apparently uses what it thinks is the file size and only reads that many characters into it's input buffer.  If the file size changed or is inaccurate at the time of the read, a truncated buffer might result.  I have a situation where the file exists in a remote location and might actually be a different size remotely than locally (due to end-of-line transliterations).  This causes problems as you might imagine.  Anyone have any ideas how to get emacs to just read the file?

Thanks,
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John G. Ata
DigitalNet, formerly Getronics Government Solutions
XTS-400 Software Development
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