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Re: problem concating (>>) to a large file
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, peter dot milne at netspeed dot com dot au
- Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 06:20:14 -0600
- Subject: Re: problem concating (>>) to a large file
- References: <001201c79ea3$4d82bce0$8500a8c0@RUSNAK>
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According to Peter Milne on 5/25/2007 2:04 AM:
> Now though, presumably because A has gotten so large, when I do the above
> command the contents of file B get copied onto the front of file A rather
> than onto its end.
>
> Is there a fix or workaround?
Use a snapshot. This was fixed in newlib, just this month. So 1.5.24 is
broken, but 1.7.0 will have the fix.
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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