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Article #39Re: Create a 1 character file ????
From: Rob Evans
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 17:32
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 17:32
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In article <1992Oct29.230606.6401@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (P. J. Holsberg) writes: I wonder why .... I cannot create a 1 byte file with vi cat microemacs But all of these stick a newline character in without being asked! With cat it is possible, at least on my Sparc. Try the following: foobar% cat > xxx a^D^D foobar% ls -l xxx -rw------- 1 rhe 1 Oct 30 17:27 xxx foobar% The secret is to type Ctrl-D twice. Robert -- /|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\ /|\ Robert Evans /|\ JANET email (UK) /|\ /|\ Centre for Computing Services, /|\ r.evans@uk.ac.ic /|\ /|\ Imperial College /|\ INTERNET email (World) /|\ /|\ London, UK /|\ r.evans@ic.ac.uk /|\ /|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\ /|\ He who holds his tongue cannot eat chocolate bar /|\ /|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!paladin.american.edu!news.univie.ac.at!hp4at!mcsun!uknet!doc.ic.ac.uk!cc.ic.ac.uk!news.cc.ic.ac.uk!r.evans From: r.evans@ic.ac.uk (Rob Evans) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: Create a 1 character file ???? Message-ID: <R.EVANS.92Oct30173243@afs1.ic.ac.uk> Date: 30 Oct 92 17:32:43 GMT References: <1992Oct29.230606.6401@mccc.edu> Organization: Imperial College Centre for Computing Services Lines: 31 In-reply-to: pjh@mccc.edu's message of Thu, 29 Oct 1992 23:06:06 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: afs1