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

Helmut Karlowski helmut.karlowski@ish.de
Sat Jan 23 00:04:00 GMT 2016


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> 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

Tested on W10-64-cygwin-32 and a 207M-file, dos and unix-endings: both
behave the same, i.e. no error when pressing 'G' and display the last 
line. Was that the question?

cygwin 2.2.1, less 481

-Helmut

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