> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 02:20:58 -0600 > From: Rugxulo <[email protected]> > > This reminds me of a 2024 blog on OS/2 Museum: > > "Learn Something Old Every Day, Part XII: Strange File Resizing on DOS" > > * > https://www.os2museum.com/wp/learn-something-old-every-day-part-xii-strange-file-resizing-on-dos/ > > "[T]he handle-based file API in DOS 2.0 was modeled on XENIX, yet on > UNIX systems, the write() function asked to transfer zero bytes simply > does nothing." > > "The MS-DOS 2.0 Programmer’s Reference Manual is quite clear that > writing zero bytes either truncates or extends a file."
Hi! Thanks for the trivia. "We can neither confirm nor deny whether alleged file was truncated or extended." ;) -Ben _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
