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RE: EXE has file junk in it
- To: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>, "'Dean Limbaugh'" <edl at ns1 dot co dot alachua dot fl dot us>
- Subject: RE: EXE has file junk in it
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 17:23:36 +0400
- Encoding: 13 TEXT
Dean Limbaugh wrote:
> A word about MSDOS/WIN95/WINNT. Files sizes are always an integral number
> of clusters. This means a 1 byte file occupies a full cluster. Apparently,
> when a file is written to disk the unused portion of the buffer is not
> cleared, so whatever was there is written to the disk. This has been the
NT clears unused part of a cluster.
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Sergey Okhapkin
Moscow, Russia
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