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Joe Wright
Mark said:At least as likely it was due to VMS - all files are multiples of 512
bytes long, padded with nulls as required. Text files had ascii 26 to
mark the 'end' but the OS still considered a 12-byte file to be 512
bytes in size.
BTW isn't the file management family tree VMS->CPM->DOS?
Maybe so. CP/M used IBM's 8-inch floppy format as its basis. The IBM
unit record (sector) was 128 bytes and it was the smallest unit you
could read/write. Text files were terminated with ASCII 26 as above.