Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 08:16:44 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: strange text inside exe
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> From: Ian Rees <ianr44 AT hotmail DOT nospam DOT com>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 00:06:02 -0400
> 
> What is the garbage doing in the exe file in the first place?

Nothing; it's filling space that should have been zeroed.

> It would seem to me if kryo could see enough of the 'garbage' to
> tell it's code, it is probably wasting a fair amount of space

It could be up to 2KB max, hardly something to care about.