From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2005-07-15T08:45:13+09:00
Subject: Re: [ ruby-Bugs-2101 ] bug in pstore (ruby 1.8.2) on Windows ( Win XP) ?

Hi,

At Fri, 15 Jul 2005 02:31:31 +0900,
Mathieu Bouchard wrote in [ruby-core:05461]:
> > At Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:36:11 +0900,
> > Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote in [ruby-core:05456]:
> > > Strange.  We call binmode just after it's opened, to set file
> > > descriptor to be binary mode.
> > open(3) in msvcrt apparently seems to truncate 0x1a at the
> > EOF if it is in text mode.
> 
> It's not that strange. It's because the early versions of the DRI-CP/M
> "operating system" rounded all file sizes to multiples of 512 bytes, so
> each file format had to provide a means to allow shorter files if it
> needed to. For text-files, it was 0x1a, aka Ctrl+Z. This behaviour was
> then carried to Seattle-QDOS, a clone of DRI-CP/M. Then QDOS was bought by
> Microsoft and renamed to PCDOS, then to MSDOS, then to Windows95. The
> WindowsNT rewrite followed that behaviour, and WindowsXP _is_ NT 5.1.

I know it well, but even notepad.exe has stopped it already.

-- 
Nobu Nakada