Re: less.exe v481-1 cannot seek to EOF in CRLF file; current cygwin32, Win10 only.

[Marco Atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>]

please reply on the list
and Bottom post please.

On 22/01/2016 16:26, KARL BOTTS wrote:
> > How largish ?
>
> Any size larger than a few meg.  That is, any size that takes more than a few
> milliseconds to seek to the end, I think.

We will need someone with W10 to test it and confirm it.
On W7 I have no issue at all with 250MB file

How long are the lines ?


> > can you try to update to latest ?
> > You have
> > less                 471-1                            OK
> > cygwin               2.1.0-1                          OK
>
>
> Not so.  From the 'cygcheck -s -v -r' output file that was attached to my bug
> report:
>
> 0 /c/ToCygwin$ egrep '^(cygwin|less)' Karl2.cygcheck.out
> cygwin                                2.3.1-1                 OK
> less                                  481-1                   OK

sorry, reading the wrong file.


> Did you look at the attached files?  I tried to keep the body of the email
> small, per instructions.  But there is info attached.
>
> ---
> Karl Botts, kdbotts@usa.net
>
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: 04:48 AM CST, 01/21/2016
> From: Marco Atzeri
> Subject: Re: less.exe v481-1 cannot seek to EOF in CRLF file; current
> cygwin32, Win10 only.
>
> On 20/01/2016 19:32, KARL BOTTS wrote:
> > In less.exe, when I use either the G or F commands on a largish CRLF file,
> it
> > responds:
>
> How largish ?
>
> On Cygwin 32 bit and W7-64 I see no problem with 224 Mbytes
>
>
> >      Cannot seek to that file position  (press RETURN)
> >
> > in the bottom "command editing line" of the display.
> >
> > No problem on LF-only files.  Does happen with either mintty or
> > Windows-Console,
> > launched from either bash or cmd.exe.
> >
> > Two files are attached: Karl2.cygcheck.out, which is the 'cygcheck -s -v
> -r'
> > output,
> > and LessBugMoreInfo.txt, which contains background info and some
> speculation.
> > ---
> > Karl Botts


--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple