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Subject: Re: make 3.79.1 problem with copy command (Windows XP)
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:44:48 +0200
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"Hans-Bernhard Broeker" <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote in message
news:2mc3asFlgbq5U2 AT uni-berlin DOT de...
> [Please break down your lines somewhere before column 80.  Fixed.]
Consider it done...

> Not the filesystem, but the data in the actual file can be corrupted
> just as easily with this method as with the more usual one.
> If you're just writing a rather long version, so you plough beyond
> the previous version's Ctrl-Z, and power fails before you reach
> the new Ctrl-Z position, you'll end up with a file with no Ctrl-Z
> in it, and thus no way of knowing where it actually ends.

Ah yes, I didn't mention it: the program that creates the file completely
fills it with Ctrl-Z characters. So when the data ends, Ctrl-Z characters
will follow. All to the end of the file. A character in the file is either
data,
or it is a Ctrl-Z. It is a bit cumbersome, but I think it is bullet-proof.

Interesting discussion, but it is getting a bit off-topic now, I am afraid.

-RoB-