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|    Rob Swindell to GitLab note in main/sbbs    |
|    console.editfile gives error if files do    |
|    22 Apr 25 14:31:45    |
   
   TZUTC: -0700   
   MSGID: 57879.sync_sys@1:103/705 2c6e22d8   
   PID: Synchronet 3.21a-Linux master/85dea2614 Apr 11 2025 GCC 12.2.0   
   TID: SBBSecho 3.24-Linux master/a20ba6050 Apr 11 2025 GCC 12.2.0   
   BBSID: VERT   
   CHRS: ASCII 1   
   https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/914#note_7114   
      
   Looking at the code, it does appear that if console.editfile() creates a   
   0-length file, you'd likely get this error:   
   ```   
   int sbbs_t::process_edited_file(const char* src, const char* dest, int mode,   
   unsigned* lines, unsigned maxlines)   
   {   
    char* buf;   
    long len;   
    FILE* fp;   
      
    if ((len = (long)flength(src)) < 1)   
    return -1;   
   ```   
      
   I wonder if that's what happened in this case.   
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