Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Gparted questions Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2023 13:22:40 +0100 Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net qHaxaxO+47DLZGHZZupDFgczqAjM+CaKtfw7S+BtMpZPxmHk7h Cancel-Lock: sha1:PspYjg5p4iO8RJzX/TW8wGPYMGs= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.6.1 Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:36869 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.