File size anomaly?

David Hampton hampton at employees.org
Tue Oct 14 23:44:07 CDT 2003


On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 09:44, Tony Bloomfield wrote:
> And after clicking the Save icon, without having made any changes (and no 
> scheduled transactions posted), I have the following files:
> 
> >ls -l My*
> -rw-------    1 tonyb    users      123890 2003-10-14 11:54 MyFile
> -rw-------    1 tonyb    users      124608 2003-10-14 11:14 
> MyFile.20031014115436.xac
> ----------    2 tonyb    users           0 2003-10-14 11:31 
> MyFile.7f0200.24282.LNK
> ----------    2 tonyb    users           0 2003-10-14 11:31 MyFile.LCK
> 
> The same file sizes are seen when I exit gc. So, my file has reduced in size 
> by some 700 bytes. Why?
> 
> I don't *think* I am losing any data, but would like to know.

Run "diff MyFile.20031014115436.xac MyFile" and see what's changed.

David


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