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To: | Zack Weinberg <zack AT codesourcery DOT com> |
Cc: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, pavenis AT latnet DOT lv, |
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From: | kelley DOT r DOT cook AT gm DOT com |
Date: | Wed, 8 May 2002 17:04:10 -0400 |
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>> There's no relation between ^Z and newlines whatsoever. Old DOS >> editors could put a ^Z anywhere, including several ^Zs one after >> another. > >Do they ever insert a ^Z in the middle of a file in order to truncate >it, and not bother to update the filesystem's idea of the file size? >(This is the only way I can think of that there would be a ^Z with a >bunch of text after it, when the file is transferred to a system that >ignores ^Z.) I used to possess an old editor that would always round the filesize up to 512 bytes with complete garbage after the ^Z (usually the tail end of a directory entry sector). I'm thinking it was the one included with the original Turbo Pascal, but I could be mistaken on that front. Kelley Cook
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