[5345] in Athena Bugs
vax 7.0F: ez2ascii
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carla Fermann)
Thu Jun 28 17:41:32 1990
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: carla@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, wdc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 90 17:41:13 EDT
From: Carla Fermann <carla@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
System name: MICKEY-MOUSE
Type and version: MVAX-II 7.0F
Display type: QVSS
What were you trying to do?
Use "ez2ascii" to convert a user (carmen)'s file from ez to ascii. (He
had encountered a problem, and asked about it through OLC, so I tried
it myself.)
What's wrong:
It converts part of the text correctly, and then begins inserting
spaces. The file seems to grow without bounds; the user filled up
29Meg on /site on his workstation when he tried it in /tmp, and my
copy of the file got up to 1.3 Meg before I stopped it (and then had
to remove the .ascii file, so that I could get below quota)
(The initial ez file was 55K)
What should have happened:
It should have just converted the formatting commands, and not
included a million spaces.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
none.
Other info:
The ez file is available in /mit/carla/carmen.ez
You should be able to run ez2ascii on it, and reproduce my results.
Watch out for your quota, though!
Thanks!
Carla
