On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 15:05:54 +0000 (UTC) Grant Edwards <inva...@invalid.invalid> wrote: > > It was actually an improvement over CP/M's file > > system. CP/M didn't have hierarchical directories > > Neither did the original MS-DOS filesystem.
I think that it always had a hierarchical file system although I am not sure about 86-DOS or QDOS on which is was based. > > or timestamps and recorded file sizes in 128-byte blocks > > rather than bytes. > > I thought that was true of the original MS-DOS filesystem as > well, but I wouldn't bet money on it. And that is why text files in MS-DOS and CP/M before it end with ^Z. They needed a way to tell where the end of the information was. Why they used ^Z (SUB - Substitute) instead of ^C (ETX - End of TeXt) or even ^D (EOT - End Of Transmission) is anyone's guess. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
