Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 12:06:35 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Transferring text files to CP/M ? Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm References: <687f914f$1@news.ausics.net> <1854a6b2e7fe52fd$82327$1040375$70dd3a6b@news.thundernews.com> Content-Language: en-GB From: dxf In-Reply-To: <1854a6b2e7fe52fd$82327$1040375$70dd3a6b@news.thundernews.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Message-ID: <688043ab$1@news.ausics.net> Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 10 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail On 23/07/2025 4:37 am, John wrote: > > A properly written program will stop at the EOF marker ($1A), so there is no need to pad additional $1As after the first one.  All that data is 'don't care' mode as it will never be processed. That's the way I've always done it. > ... I think I'll do that from now on. Padding the file length out to a record was done out of an abundance of caution. But if nobody else has found it necessary, then it's less work for me. I had a utility to pad files but being an extra step, it was more hassle than worth.