Another fix for Samba/VMS 2.2.8

[COLLOT Jean-Yves]

As you know, there are dozens of utilities, tools, products, and stuff that
can be used on a Windows or Linux workstation in conjunction with Samba/VMS,
so I can hardly try them all in a lifetime...

Anyway, after your mail, I downloaded this OpenOffice thing, and I am happy
to tell you that, as far as I can tell, it works nicely with the latest
Samba/VMS version. No more "repairing" that I could encounter.

So please test yourself, and tell me if you run into any problem.

JY 

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Albrecht Schlosser [mailto:ajs856 at tiscali.de] 
Envoyé : mardi 10 août 2004 12:49
À : samba-vms at lists.samba.org
Objet : Re: Another fix for Samba/VMS 2.2.8

COLLOT Jean-Yves wrote:

> Mr Regier told me that with the latest Samba/VMS version (dated
> 16-Jul-2004), he encountered problems when accessing Variable-length or
VFC
> files with WORD and some other products (such as Visual SlickEdit and a
> couple more). The problem did not occur when using Notepad or Wordpad.
> 
> The reason was an erroneous action when rewinding the file.
> 
> A new version fixing this problem is now available at the usual download
> area :
>  http://www.pi-net.dyndns.org/anonymous/jyc/.
> 
> Sorry about that, and thanks to Mr Regier for finding that problem.
> 

Is one of these "some other products" OpenOffice? I experienced problems in
the 
version before your last fix, but didn't try the recent fix yet.

FWIW: OpenOffice reports a corrupt file when the file is opened the next
time 
after modifying an OpenOffice document, and ask if it should "repair" the
file. 
If you answer "yes", the file seems to have the old contents, but not the
last 
saved version :-(

Can anybody confirm this?

Anyhow, I'll test this new version and report, if the problem persists.

Thanks for all your work!

Albrecht

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