Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!stevea From: stevea@uiucdcs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Software warning for MAX-80 owners - (nf) Message-ID: <2299@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Jun-83 22:31:16 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.2299 Posted: Thu Jun 23 22:31:16 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Jun-83 09:54:08 EDT Lines: 15 #R:pur-phy:-79200:uiucdcs:10400072:000:704 uiucdcs!stevea Jun 23 11:21:00 1983 I would bet that the editor problem is caused by a difference in the way LDOS and TRSDOS 1.3 (as well as NEWDOS/80) keep track of the EOF in the File Control Block. This usually results in one extra record of crap at the end of the file if the file does not end on a sector boundary. Unfortunately, the only patches that I have for any R.S. software were to make them do it the way NEWDOS does, as opposed to the way Model I TRSDOS 2.3 did it. The NEWDOS way is better for variable length records, which is why Radio Shack adopted it for their COBOL system. It's too bad that LOBO hasn't seen the light. Steve Alexander ...![parsec,pur-ee]!uiucdcs!stevea stevea.uiuc@Rand-Relay