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RE: EXE has file junk in it


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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