From:	sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject:	RE: EXE has file junk in it
5 Jun 1997 17:11:05 -0700 :
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	"'Dean Limbaugh'"
	<edl AT ns1 DOT co DOT alachua DOT fl DOT us>
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Dean Limbaugh wrote:
> A word about MSDOS/WIN95/WINNT. Files sizes are always an integral number
> of clusters. This means a 1 byte file occupies a full cluster. Apparently,
> when a file is written to disk the unused portion of the buffer is not
> cleared, so whatever was there is written to the disk. This has been the

NT clears unused part of a cluster.

-- 
Sergey Okhapkin
Moscow, Russia
Looking for a job.


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