"File types"

[Chuck Guzis]

On 8/30/2006 at 10:42 AM Fred Cisin wrote:

>Still there in Int 21h function 9!

Or, if you want to get really retro, it's still there as:

	mov cl,9
	mov	dx, offset message
	call	5

>also, fixed length with padding character (FCBs),
>also, keeping start and end pointers

I may have have seen it, but I can't recall any software that stores ASCII
strings as 7-bit with the last character in a record having the high-order
bit set.  Then, there's the matter of multiple blank compression...

Cheers,
Chuck