> > So far i found that Transfer() has a buffer, scratch of
> size 1024*50*2
> > (100k).
>
> Why *2?

The declaration is:

          char scratch[BUFSIZE * 2];

It seems that it is doubled because the translation of LineFeed
to CR+LF *might* produce data that is twice as big as the original.

/Linus
Received on 2001-09-11