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

[Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>]

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, kdbotts@usa.net
>

can you try to update to latest ?

You have
less                 471-1                            OK
cygwin               2.1.0-1                          OK

we are at
cygwin                                  2.4.0-1
less                                    481-1


Regards
Marco

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