In my ongoing quest to party like it's 1994, I've been writing a module to implement SAUCE. It's basically a method to write metadata to the end a file. It was used primarily in the "art scene" (ansi, ascii, whatever).

Reading in records has been no problem - writing them , however, has brought forward an issue.

In the "SAUCE IN FILES" section of the above documentation, they describe the file structure as so:

• FILE DATA
• EOF MARKER
• COMMENT BLOCK
• SAUCE RECORD

Thus, when writing the information a the file, is it not true that one must explicitly write an EOF marker? I've been told that the character in question in chr(26). Is this true for only the Windows/DOS environment, or is there a way to write the EOF marker on any platform?

Also, wouldn't this method of writing metadata corrupt files for programs that ignore said EOF marker?

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