byAnton opened this issue on Jul 18, 2005 ยท 9 posts
AntoniaTiger posted Tue, 19 July 2005 at 3:15 AM
I know that Plain Old DOS did make use of an end-of-file marker, but even 15 years ago it wasn't used by all software. A lot of code I saw explicitly counted the file length. So relying on EOF being there is not a good idea.