On 1/26/18, 12:12 PM, "sqlite-users on behalf of Keith Medcalf" <sqlite-users-boun...@mailinglists.sqlite.org on behalf of kmedc...@dessus.com> wrote: > Actually, EOF (0xFF) *is* part of a text file, and is the byte in an ASCII > byte-stream that indicates end-of-file. In the "old days" the bytes > following the last-byte in a stream and the end of a storage block > (sector/cluster/track/cylinder, what have you) were padded with 0xFF so you > knew you were past the end-of-the-file when you were reading it.
Oh, I remember the messes that existed before stream files became the norm. But messes they were, and there's no more reason to support them in a Unicode file than there is to support FIELDDATA format. And if you're going to talk about the block file and paper tape era, don't forget that FF also meant a deleted character and should be skipped without being counted or accounted for. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
