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Article #3899Re: minor problem with COPY command
From: Tom Almy
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 1990 22:16
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 1990 22:16
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In article <valley.661107643@gsbsun> valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty) writes: >The whole "ASCII file/^Z = EOF" thing is a bug, in my view. >All copying should be in binary mode. Editors should not append ^Zs >to files. Foo on the Norton Editor! Not a bug, but a compatibility feature. MS/DOS was designed to be somewhat compatible with CP/M so that all the CP/M applications could be easily ported. In CP/M, files were always a multiple of 128 bytes so end of file was indicated by filling the end of the 128 byte sector with ^Z's. But this was years ago. There is no excuse for editors to append ^Z's now. In fact there is no excuse for any program not ported from CP/M (which is just about everything) to append ^Z's. BTW, the major, still existing in one form or another, applications ported: DBASE-II, WordStar, (Microsoft) Basic, SuperCalc, and Turbo Pascal. (I had them all!) Tom Almy toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com Standard Disclaimers Apply
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ogicse!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tekchips!tekgvs!toma From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: minor problem with COPY command Message-ID: <8595@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> Date: 13 Dec 90 22:16:04 GMT References: <31600012@hpcvra.cv.hp.com.CV.HP.COM> <valley.661107643@gsbsun> Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 22