From: Richard Zidlicky <rz@linux-m68k.org>
To: David Brown <caml-list@davidb.org>
Cc: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>,
Eric Dahlman <edahlman@atcorp.com>,
caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Bug with really_input under cygwin
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:14:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040310131417.GA2819@linux-m68k.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040310041009.GA27787@davidb.org>
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 08:10:09PM -0800, David Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 02:06:59PM +1100, skaller wrote:
>
> > In MS-DOS, files *always* consist of a number of 256
> > byte blocks. It is impossible to have a file with
> > a non-256 byte multiple size. Of course, text files
> > uses an encoding with a Ctrl-Z at the end. So the length
> > of the file 'in bytes' is not the same as the length
> > of the file 'in Latin-1'. The number of lines in the
> > file isn't well defined: CR/LF marks end of line,
> > but what happens if the CR and LF are scattered randomly?
>
> Is this true with "modern" version of DOS? FAT has a length-in-bytes
> field in the directory entry.
it was never true in DOS, it was in CP/M
Richard
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-10 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-09 22:30 Eric Dahlman
2004-03-09 22:52 ` Karl Zilles
2004-03-10 3:06 ` skaller
2004-03-10 4:10 ` David Brown
2004-03-10 13:14 ` Richard Zidlicky [this message]
2004-03-11 4:11 ` skaller
2004-03-11 3:24 ` skaller
2004-03-10 15:25 ` Nuutti Kotivuori
2004-03-11 3:42 ` skaller
2004-03-11 5:02 ` Nuutti Kotivuori
2004-03-11 15:21 ` skaller
2004-03-11 6:32 ` james woodyatt
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