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[Caml-list] Bug with really_input under cygwin

Eric Dahlman
- Karl Zilles
- skaller
  - David Brown
    - Richard Zidlicky
      - skaller
    - skaller
  - Nuutti Kotivuori
    - skaller
      - Nuutti Kotivuori
        
        skaller
      - james woodyatt

Date:	-- (:)
From:	David Brown <caml-list@d...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Bug with really_input under cygwin

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 02:06:59PM +1100, skaller wrote:

> In MS-DOS, files *always* consist of a number of 256
> byte blocks. It is impossible to have a file with
> a non-256 byte multiple size. Of course, text files
> uses an encoding with a Ctrl-Z at the end. So the length
> of the file 'in bytes' is not the same as the length
> of the file 'in Latin-1'. The number of lines in the
> file isn't well defined: CR/LF marks end of line,
> but what happens if the CR and LF are scattered randomly?

Is this true with "modern" version of DOS?  FAT has a length-in-bytes
field in the directory entry.

Dave Brown

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