Chris,
  Not sure why, but we've seen this many times...Usually doing the first
:LISTF is bogus, but following ones are accurate; Seems like something it's
flushed until (After) you look at it.

RAT

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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Schofield [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 9:41 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Message file and listf


Hi Everyone

I have a message file defined as follows

FILE: CTRIN.CTR.DKA

FILE CODE : 0                   FOPTIONS: ASCII,VARIABLE,NOCCTL,MSG
BLK FACTOR: 1                   CREATOR : **
REC SIZE: 300(BYTES)            LOCKWORD: **
BLK SIZE: 310(BYTES)            SECURITY--READ    : ANY
EXT SIZE: 258(SECT)                       WRITE   : ANY
NUM REC: 0                                APPEND  : ANY
NUM SEC: 1264                             LOCK    : ANY
NUM EXT: 5                                EXECUTE : ANY
MAX REC: 1031                           **SECURITY IS ON
                                FLAGS   : NO ACCESSORS
NUM LABELS: 0                   CREATED : THU, FEB 17, 2000, 11:14 AM
MAX LABELS: 0                   MODIFIED: MON, MAR 13, 2000,  2:34 PM
DISC DEV #: 1                   ACCESSED: MON, MAR 13, 2000,  2:35 PM
SEC OFFSET: 0                   LABEL ADDR: **
VOLCLASS  : MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_SET:DISC

I have a C (posix) program waiting on a FREAD on this file.

LISTF,2 reports a non zero EOF when I know it is empty.

If I run SH.HPBIN.SYS and examine the file using ls then the size is zero
bytes (correct !)

Then (bizarrely) if exit SH and redo LISTF,2 the EOF is 0 (correct !)

I am running MPE 5.5.

Any Ideas ?


Chris