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From: guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: getc() != EOF
Message-ID: <5827@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Jun-84 00:06:50 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  1 00:06:50 1984
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Organization: "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam
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>	while (!feof(stdin)) putchar(getchar());
>
>does not work.  It seems that the EOF indicator does not come on until
>the EOF marker has been read. Previous versions of the standard I/O
>library set the EOF flag if the last character has been read and the
>next one will be and EOF.

How *could* this ever have worked under UNIX???  Remember that the input
can be a pipe.  You only know there's no more data when a READ system
call returns <= 0.

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	Guido van Rossum, "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam
	guido @ mcvax