Re: a basic XY III+ glitch?

[Lynn Brenner lynn.brenner.nyc@xxxxxxxx]

Can anyone on the list tell me the file size of a healthy EDITOR.EXE in XY 3+, version 3.57?

I don't think mine is corrupted, but I don't have a good copy to compare it to.

Lynn

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Carl Distefano mailto:cld@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Reply to note from Lynn Brenner mailto:lynn.brenner.nyc@xxxxxxxx Sun, 1 Nov 2015 14:50:28 -0500 Lynn, > It seems fair to conclude that the repeat carriage returns were > so numerous that Xywrite simply ran out of space for the file > and eliminated part of it. > What is the file space limit? Normally, XyWrite will crash itself (out of memory) before trashing a file. The limit in Xy3 is something like 400-500 KB (4-5 MB in Xy4). But this sounds like something else. What XyWrite displays on the screen and what's actually in the file aren't necessarily the same, especially when things are going south. You can do TYPE filename|MORE at the DOS prompt to get a better idea of what's actually in the file. Is it really all carriage returns at the end of the file? If so, then some kind of keyboard malfunction sounds likely. If not, then it's possible that your copy of EDITOR.EXE has become corrupted, and you should check the file size (of EDITOR.EXE) against the file size of a known good copy of your version of Editor. These are, of course, only two of many possibilities. If you quit and restart XyWrite, does the problem recur? Carl Distefano mailto:cld@xxxxxxxx