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Re: (E/L ELF) MS Word 5.0a gives full disk error when disk is 85% free!



>>>>> "Sam" == Sam Oscar Lantinga <slouken@cs.ucdavis.edu> writes:
In article <4dkgpb$7cp@mark.ucdavis.edu> slouken@cs.ucdavis.edu (Sam Oscar Lantinga) writes:


    Zinc> zinc (zinc@zifi.genetics.utah.edu) wrote: is anyone else
    Zinc> using MS Word 5.0 with E/L ELF 1.99q?  tonight i was
    Zinc> fooling around with things and for some reason MS word will
    Zinc> not write to the disk and instead gives a disk full mesg.
    Zinc> this does not happen with any other program i've tested
    Zinc> (Compact Pro, TexEdit, Addressbook).

    Zinc> i'm running Linux 1.3.57, E/L ELF (under X), Word 5.0a.

    Sam> 	Yup, I had the same problem under 1.99p8 I think.  I
    Sam> don't have any problems now.  I moved the Word application to
    Sam> a .hfv file, and I don't know if that fixed it.

    Sam> See ya!  -Sam

Word 5.0 will have that problem, but Word 5.1 won't.  I believe it's
actually a problem with Word itself.  You didn't used to see the
problem under Executor because Executor used to lie about free space
coming from non-HFV files.  When we first made Executor tell the
truth, we introduced a bug that caused both Word 5.0 and Word 5.1 to
complain about the amount of room (this was in 1.99p8 or 1.99p9 or
somewhere), but when we fixed the bug Word 5.0 continued to complain,
but after much poking around my suspicion i sthat it's a Word 5.0 bug.

All of this is due to the way in which a particular system call
reports how much free space is available.  They use 16 bit quantities
where 32 bit quantities would have made a much better choice.

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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