Date   : Sat, 20 Sep 2003 09:59:08 +0200
From   : Mark <bbcmailinglist@...>
Subject: Re: Fw: XFER v4 problem

I'm the author of XFER 3. This version used a buffer with a size of (I
think) 4000 bytes. That doesn't mean you couldn't read or write files larger
than 4000 bytes, it's just the amount of data sent over every time.

XFER 3 indeed contained a bug that in *very* rare circumstances caused it to
fail.

However, this bug has been fixed in version 4, by Angus Duggan.

So I think most of the advice on this mailing list has been good. It's very
unlikely the program is the cause.

Mark.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Majordomo List Manager [mailto:majordomo@...]On Behalf Of
> Matt Callow
> Sent: vrijdag 19 september 2003 13:12
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Subject: Re: Fw: [BBC-Micro] XFER v4 problem
>
>
>  --- Bob Devries <bdevries@...> wrote: > It
> just locks up when doing files larger than 4000
> > bytes. Also, I *think* it
> > is screwing up the smaller files, too.
> > I can't seem to load them from the disk.
> >
> Maybe it's a problem with your disk.  Have you tried
> writing a large file to the disk using basic?
> I haven't used xfer for a while, but I do remember
> that is seems to load about 4k of data into a buffer
> before writing it to disk.  I had similar problems in
> the past - I think it was due to incorrectly formatted
> disks.
>
> Also, I've just had a quick look at the xfer code. In
> xfer3, the buffer size if 4000 bytes.  In xfer4 it's
> 4096 bytes.
>
> HTH
>
> Matt
>
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