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[LI] erratic file size readings from CD ROM




Hi,
please read the output of the dir of my CD ROM as seen from WIndows
NT and LINUX. I was surprise that it should have any difference at all.
The problem started when I started to install Star Office on my
LINUX machine so51a_lnx_01.tar (about 67MB) but it gave the error that
it is not the correct archeive, then I noticed the incorrect file size
of the tarball. I got over this problem by booting into NT again and
copying the file to a DOS partition and from there transfered it to
LINUX partition. I got the installation done successfully but I am
curious why LINUX machine is showing the wrong file size only for this
CD ROM. I tried other CDs randomly & it was fine. One more thing the content of this CD was downloaded from net on NTFS partition from where it was written to this CD (it should not make diffrence to the best of my knowledge).
Output of dir command from Windows NT

Volume in drive G is PMAT
Volume Serial Number is 0E11-2259

Directory of G:\

10/06/99  06:23p        18,968,232 	CC32E47.EXE
12/09/99  12:45a           989,184	freeJava2.exe
12/09/99  01:02a         1,689,061 	HtmlToHlp-099a-se.zip
11/07/99  06:59a        70,393,856 	so51a_lnx_01.tar
12/03/99  03:36p        65,446,400	so51a_win_01.exe
11/11/99  11:19a        34,553,728	sp5I386.exe
09/27/99  04:52p        37,174,114 	wnt46e.exe
             17 File(s)    278,138,174 bytes
                                     0 bytes free
total 90614
Output of ls -al command on LINUX
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root  root        32768 Jan  1  1970 .
drwxr-xr-x   5 root  root         1024 Dec  3 03:16 ..
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root  root 15855616 Oct  7 01:23 CC32E47.EXE
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root  root  1689061 Dec  9 08:02 HtmlToHlp-099a-se.zip
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root  root   989184 Dec  9 07:45 freeJava2.exe
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root  root  0272768 Nov  7 13:59 so51a_lnx_01.tar
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root  root  7598080 Dec  3 22:36 so51a_win_01.exe
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root  root  1237376 Nov 11 18:19 sp5I386.exe
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root  root  8941952 Sep 27 23:52 wnt46e.exe

I have deleted several lines from both the output to prevent others from getting irritated.

I hope somebody knows why it is happening.
Regards
Pankaj Mathur
Bangkok
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