[Info-vax] Re; Spiralog, RMS Journaling (was Re: FREESPADRIFT)

[lawrencedo99 at gmail.com]

On Tuesday, June 28, 2016 at 4:09:05 PM UTC+12, johnwa... at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> Windows has no built in record management layer. To some that's a good
> thing.

And I believe it keeps, or kept, the convention from CP/M that a text file should end with CTRL/Z. This is because CP/M didn’t keep track of the size of a file down to the byte, but only in whole sectors.

This might have been true of PC/MS-DOS 1.0 as well.