man2hlp fails on SunOS 5.8

Andrew V. Samoilov kai at cmail.ru
Tue Aug 20 15:04:50 UTC 2002


Pavel Roskin wrote:

>Hello!
>
>  
>
>>errno and ferror is not set. I rewrite this piece of code with
>>read and even make circle with fgetc, but it does not cure.
>>It looks like eof, but it is not true.
>>    
>>
>
>The fix is in CVS.  Some operating systems think it's Ok to return from
>fwrite() before everything is written if the block is too large (see e.g.
>sources of cvs, look for LARGEST_FWRITE).  Just in case, I wrote a similar
>wrapper for fread().
>
>Please make sure it works for you.
>  
>
Problem is in fread. This one stops reading, but does not report about 
problems.
Now situation is even worse. man2hlp produces corrupted help file and 
report success.

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Regards,
Andrew V. Samoilov








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