Rick,

Along with uploading it to a POSIX directory, did you change it to a
bytestream file?  I had a lot of strange things happen to me with files
that I transferred to POSIX that I sent as binary only or ASCII only
(particularly in web pages).

Kevin Newman

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Feldmann, Rick [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 3:36 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Editing Uploaded Files with VI
>
> Here is what I'm doing:
>
> 1 - Upload a file from the PC using Reflection v5.10 into a POSIX
> directory
> 2 - Edit the file using vi (adding something I forgot on the PC side,
> or
> someone else is adding to it)
> 3 - Save the file using the vi command :wq
> 4 - The following error message is returned:
>         "Write error (out of space)" File too large
> 5 - Issue the vi command :q!
> 6 - If I added 10 bytes somewhere in the file, 10 bytes have been
> removed from the end of the file.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone else has run into this problem and what
> workaround they have developed (if any).
>
> Rick Feldmann
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