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Article #8458Re: ^D's, was (Re: "copy" to Amiga serial port)
From: Bruce Langdon
Date: Tue, 16 May 1989 17:19
Date: Tue, 16 May 1989 17:19
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In article <15526@gryphon.COM>, richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
> In article <8905041304.AA26209@decwrl.dec.com> batcheldern@hannah.dec.com (Ned Batchelder, PostScript Eng.) writes:
> >In article <15402@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
> ..., and certainly sombody will someday fix broken UNIX spoolers
> that barf when they see a ^D at the beginning.
The SPOOLER is broken?
> My question really, based on my friends observation, was thet, why
> isn't there an ascii end of file indicator ?
I have seen ascii FS (file separator?) used for this.
Anyway, on any reasonable system it's easy to recognize eof, at least if the
input is coming from a file.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!well!lll-lcc!langdon From: langdon@lll-lcc.UUCP (Bruce Langdon) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: ^D's, was (Re: "copy" to Amiga serial port) Summary: There is an ascii end-of-file character. It is FS = hex 1c. Some systems even use it. Message-ID: <2479@lll-lcc.UUCP> Date: 16 May 89 17:19:00 GMT References: <8905041304.AA26209@decwrl.dec.com> <15526@gryphon.COM> Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, LCC, Livermore Ca Lines: 22