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g2chanhk@cdf.toronto.edu (Simon Ho Ki CHAN) asked in
<1993Jan21.061448.25739@cdf.toronto.edu>:

| 	Hi, is there anybody who knows how to put the EOF marker at the end of 
| the last line, instead of putting it in a new line? e.g I wanna create a file 
| like the following
| 
| 		blah, blah
| 		blah, blah<EOF>
| 
| 	instead of
| 
| 		blah, blah
| 		blah, blah
| 		<EOF>

vi is adamant about closing a file with a trailing newline (the exception
being a file consisting of only one newline, which vi insists on writing
out as an empty file) when it writes a file out.

You can use another editor or, if the last line is short, leave it off, exit
vi, and echo -n "text" >> file with BSD echo or echo "text\c" >> file with
System V echo.  However, you'd have to do that again every time you let vi
write the file again.

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