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kanze@gabi-soft.fr (J. Kanze) wrote:

>In article <199603010214.VAA16273@pleiades.cs.rpi.edu>
>axl@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Axel Thimm) writes:

>|> I have had a look in the April draft, but I think that there is a small
>|> ambiguity about eof() methods in streams.
>|> Is the eof-flag raised, when the end of the stream is reached, or when
>|> an attempt to move past this end is made?
[...]
>|> Declaring the end of a stream as the first charachter _after_ the last
>|> character of the stream would rescue the expression, but wouldn't fit
>|> into a concept of an end. (Usually one thinks of an end as belonging to
>|> the whole)
>|> As I am rather convinced, that the eof is raised at an attempt to meove
>|> past the end, I'd like to ask how to check this in a binary file without
>|> having to perform a movement.

>You might want to try the function `peek'.  I tend to use this function
>a lot.  Basically, this forces a look-ahead, which will set the eof if
>there is nothing more there.

But I think that you can use this only with text streams, not with
binary streams (You would not be able to tell a eof-char from an
ordinary binary char).
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Axel Thimm <axl@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Freie Universitaet Berlin
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