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>jon@vector0.SAC.CA.US  (Dazed N. Confused) writes:
>>      Somewhere in the middle of the article the poster had put in a
>> ^Z.  Waffle stopped at this point and read no further, even though
>> the rest of the file was about 10k.

roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) writes:
>Waffle handles files in text mode, except when reading/writing the spool
>for off-site traffic.  (right, Bill?)  ^Z happens to the the DOS EOF
>marker for text files.  Waffle hasn't got a bug.  MS-DOS has a bozon
>filesystem.

Doesn't have anything to do with the filesystem.  The DEFAULT mode to read
a file is "TEXT" mode, in which case a ^Z is treated as EOF.  If WAFFLE didn't
open the news files in "TEXT" mode, then this bug would be fixed.  But then
you would have to contend with CR/LF line delimiters.

>
>Hey, Unix types... what happens if a DOS site embeds a ^D in mail or
>news?

^D is only treated as the EOF character when it's typed in from the keyboard.
As a matter of fact you can change which character is treated as EOF by
issuing a 'stty' command. "stty eof ^Z" will make UNIX act more like DOS.
^D or ^Z doesn't have any effect when read from a file unless a program is
setup to look for those characters.


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