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- >>>>> "Sam" == Sam Oscar Lantinga <slouken@cs.ucdavis.edu> writes:
- In article <4dkgpb$7cp@mark.ucdavis.edu> slouken@cs.ucdavis.edu (Sam Oscar Lantinga) writes:
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- 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).
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- Zinc> i'm running Linux 1.3.57, E/L ELF (under X), Word 5.0a.
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- 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.
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- Sam> See ya! -Sam
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- 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.
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- 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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