Extraneous data after OSLib zips

[Tom Hughes]

In message <QZtdOCA2Crw4Ewqw at mk-net.demon.co.uk>
          Tony van der Hoff <OSLib at mk-net.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> A bit of a puzzle, this one. I use a TaskObey (!ReleaseLib) to build the
> archive using SparkFS on my local (ADFS) disc. This archive is, as you
> predict, 726774 bytes.
>
> The same TaskObey then copies this archive to my big NTFS disc (via
> LanMan98), where arrives as a different size (for the 5.61 release it
> was 1114112 bytes, currently it is appearing as 905216 bytes).

Have you tried making sure you explicitly close the archive before
copying it? Only RISC OS tends to allocate space to a file in chunks
and then claim back the unused bit when you close the file.

Tom

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