Date   : Thu, 02 Jul 1998 19:24:36 +0100
From   : Chris Johns <cmjohns@...>
Subject: Re: XFER bug

In message <3.0.5.32.19980701103228.00845df0@...> you wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Has anyone else noticed the bug in XFER 3.0 which says that a disk is full
> even though there may be up to 10k of space left?  For instance, if you
> have a disk which is 195,000 bytes full, and you try to send a files like a
> !BOOT file which is only 17 bytes long, you will get the message 'Disk
> Full' from XFER.  Does anyone know how to fix this?  I can get around the
> problem by just copying to another disk and then copying back to the disk I
> want it on, but it is annoying and time consuming!

I think it would be releated to the problem that you get with *Build on a 
disc which is full. I think its something like OPENOUT needs at least 16k
to create the file, and if XFER is using OPENOUT it will suffer from the
same problem.
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