Re: Gparted questions

From	"Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Gparted questions
Date	2023-02-02 13:22 +0100
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On 2023-02-02 05:01, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2023-02-02, 26C.Z968 <26C.Z968@noaada.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 2/1/23 1:03 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>
>>> On 2023-02-01, 26C.Z968 <26C.Z968@noaada.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>      Though insider rumors are that MicroSquish is going down the same,
>>>>      sane, path as Apple ... ie converting more and more to a Linux/Unix
>>>>      underlying system ... they are disguising this and you won't really
>>>>      see anything Linux-ish for quite awhile. Winders is a HORRIBLE OS,
>>>>      packed full of 30 years of fix-ups, compromises and vulnerabilities.
>>>
>>> More than 40 years if you include the cruft it inherited from MS-DOS.
>>> Their quality standard is "Sort of works, most of the time."
>>
>>     Hmm .. I wonder how much DOS is *still* in Win-11 ? How much CP/M
>>     was in DOS for that matter ?
> 
> One of my pet peeves goes all the way back to CP/M.  The CP/M file
> system only stored the size of a file in 128-byte sectors.  To make
> sure a text file ended in the right place, a hex 1A marker was placed
> at the end of the actual text.  Since the MS-DOS file system (and its
> Windows successors) stores file sizes to the byte, there is not - and
> never was - a need for that hex 1A marker.  But it lives on to this
> day, still causing data lossage.  My programs never write it, and
> remove it whenever they see it.

I made use of it, in MsDOS.

My programs stored data starting first with a descriptive text, then 
CR,LF,EOF, and then the actual binary data structures. That way, a file 
could be identified using "type somefile.dat".


-- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.

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