random technical notes

Linux:
cp /dev/null your_file_name

Windows:
copy /y nul your_file_name

Structured Storage provides file and data persistence in COM by handling a single file as a structured collection of objects known as storages and streams.

The purpose of Structured Storage is to reduce the performance penalties and overhead associated with storing separate objects in a single file. Structured Storage provides a solution by defining how to handle a single file entity as a structured collection of two types of objects—storages and streams—through a standard implementation called Compound Files. This enables the user to interact with, and manage, a compound file as if it were a single file rather than a nested hierarchy of separate objects.

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