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Everett Kaser                   Hewlett-Packard Company writes:
> 
> The whole "ASCII file/^Z = EOF" thing is a bug, in my view.
> All copying should be in binary mode.  Editors should not append ^Zs
> to files.  Foo on the Norton Editor!

Most certainly correct!  As if it isn't stupid enough to have a two-character
EOL (with every second editor handling lone CR's and LF's in arbitrary
and nonsensical ways), a ^Z EOF is self-contradictory... and arguably
even more stupid!  The end of the file actually occurs AFTER the ^Z making
the ^Z a JBEOF (just before).       

Then there are some systems which aren't satisfied with a single ^Z, but
either deliberately pad the rest of the sector with them, or after each
copy/edit operation add one more "End-Of-File", a form of audit trail...

One (1) just has to shake one's head! <8-)