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...ew small changes (so that the size of the file changes by a few dozen bytes or less), and then recompile, Linux gets a corrupt version of the file. Suppose I've increased the file length by 20 bytes. I will get the *old* version of the file, but then padded out to the correct length with 20 nullchars at the end. When this happens, I've found the following seems to force Linux to get a correct copy: delete a big chunk of the file, save it (from Win98), reread it from Linux, put the big chunk back, and then reread it again. I used a network sniffer to monitor the packets. What I found i...