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by shakna 1438 days ago
> Today's fun fact: The MS-DOS `format` command fills the disk with 0xf6, not 0x00.

Another fun fact: That character is ö under Windows-1252, the codepage in use by Windows since about Windows 2.0, and some late MS-DOS.

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Wow that explains the öööööööö I remember seeing back in the day when I first ever downloaded a hex editor and opened a drive I had raw.
Funny co-incidence, in the Finnish language when you don't know what to say, you can say "Ööh". Data not found.