From: sos@prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: EXE has file junk in it 5 Jun 1997 17:11:05 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BC71D5.35814BD0.cygnus.gnu-win32@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru> Original-To: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" , "'Dean Limbaugh'" Encoding: 13 TEXT Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com 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. -- Sergey Okhapkin Moscow, Russia Looking for a job. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".