[comp.sys.handhelds] 0 length file bug

peraino@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Bob Peraino) (02/01/91)

 
>Along the same thread:  Does anyone have a list of the bugs for the D
>version?  I only know of one, you can't transmit 0 byte files (darn?!)
>          ---Falco


     You can't RECEIVE 0 byte files. Transmitting a  0 length file is
an impossibility from the hp48 end; for an object to exist, it MUST
use some memory. This is probably why receiving this type of file
doesn't work; the code wasn't written to handle the case of a 0 length file
(that's obvious) probably because that case doesn't exist on the
48, and that case existing on the pc wasn't considered (This probably
wasn't obvious).

peraino@gmuvax.gmu.edu