Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tom Hardy Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: End of file mark Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 11:28:11 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: <1934062.nj8Py12zOn@gmail.com> References: <3445299.1ZzGpYkYrH@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="619178a473320eda396d97b133184162"; logging-data="15520"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Ge5yZtT7DfhQES5+pAWJt" User-Agent: KNode/4.14.9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:os5EjaEpyXbbnzLEy6cwmF+evAY= Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:15148 Charlie Gibbs wrote: > That wasn't WordStar, but CP/M itself; all programs worked that > way. I never used CPM, but I knew Wordstar very well, and DOS fairly well. I used to run WS out of a script to set the current directory because WS was clueless about directories. > Speaking of DOS copy, remember how it would refuse to copy a > zero-length file? I don't recall that one. How about the BIOS text routine that would insert CR/LF to wrap lines that reached the end of the screen. Not exceeded the end of the screen but reached it. It effectively inserted a blank line after 80 character lines. It affected all the command line tools and other programs that used the BIOS. That one may still be around. -- Tom Hardy