#: 8791 S3/Languages
    16-Dec-90  17:57:00
Sb: #8786-#'C' problem
Fm: James Jones 76257,562
To: Jim Peasley 72726,1153 (X)

I bet that this may be some remnant of MS-DOS's CP/M-like origins.  Some
utility or program on the PC side may well be padding with CTRL-Z.  CP/M, which
MS-DOS was written to sort of behave like, at least at first, couldn't tell how
long files were other than the number of 128-byte sectors they contained, so
the convention for text files came up of marking the end of the good stuff with
a CTRL-Z character.  Anything past that was junk remaining in the last 128-byte
sector of the sort that CP/M disks used.

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