Re: EOF location?

Pete Dashwood wrote:
"Roger While" <simrw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:e5fn9v$iof$03$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Can you stop talking rubbish and refer to my previous post.
There is so much wrong in this post that defies belief.

Could you point some of it out, Roger?

Up until the para that starts "I assume..." it looked OK to me. He pointed out my error which I had already admitted to, but his examples looked good... I would disagree with some of what came after that, but I think it is probably arguable.

I certainly meant no disrespect. I re-read your reply carefully to make sure what I thought you were saying was a reasonable assumption. I used pretty neutral language, and made it clear I was responding to one idea presented by yourself.

As for the other two paragraphs in question, well, my comments were half hand-waving and half long years of experience working on disparate systems with different APIs and different "file" semantics. The details were certainly left as an exercise for the reader (myself included in that group).

Think of them as a jumping off point to discuss where and how these ways of looking at how "data" collected into "files" are the same or different across environments or platforms. It can certainly be spun off into a thread on a more on-topic forum, if necessary.

If this is deemed rubbish, so be it. How can I argue?
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