https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Josephrichard 2026-06-03T00:39:31Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.42.1 https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:COMP_3000_Lab_4_2012&diff=17445 2012-10-19T00:11:18Z

<p>Josephrichard: I&#039;m answering someone&#039;s question.</p> <hr /> <div><br /> <br /> <br /> Question aAbout padding from Part B - question 2:<br /> Does padding only occur at the end of the file? For example, if our file A is 256 bytes, the padding in file B will make it 512 bytes?<br /> Also, does a space character count as padding, or should we use null characters? (or are they the same)<br /> <br /> It specifically says padded with nulls though. Null is 0 in Ascii. Space is 32 in Ascii. Really, even though it doesn't explicitly say the padding is at the end, it would be absolutely useless to bad elsewhere for most uses.<br /> <br /> My understanding about the size was sizeof(B) = sizeof(A) + blocksize - sizeof(A)%blocksize.</div>

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