Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 14:44:33 -0500
Message-Id: <199812231944.OAA19298@envy.delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <914439857.10644.0.nnrp-12.c1ed260d@news.demon.co.uk>
	(jazz AT uknet DOT demon DOT co DOT uk)
Subject: Re: ld (that comes with djgpp) major problems
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> >This is just the way DOS works.  If you seek past the end of a file
> >and then write to it, DOS fills the "gap" with junk.
> 
> But that doesn't change the fact that I have a useless file!
> What is ld or me doing wrong?

The file isn't useless.  The parts where you see junk wouldn't have
data in them anyway - the only alternative is to fill them with zeros,
but that takes longer.  The final output file doesn't use every single
byte in the file for data - some is just filler to make things the
right sizes.