Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!ucbvax!pro-sol.cts.com!mdavis From: mdavis@pro-sol.cts.com (Morgan Davis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: EOF is Ctrl-Z Message-ID: <8908151901.AA29296@trout.nosc.mil> Date: 15 Aug 89 18:27:08 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 11 Network Comment: to #9999 by farrier@apple.com According to my ASCII chart, Control-Z is SUB (or SUBstitute). The only filing systems I know of that use ^Z as EOF is CP/M and MS-DOS (which is CP/M is Microsoft's clothing). In the UNIX / C world, Control-D is normally used to signal EOF when typed from the console. However, smart OS's don't rely on a "character" to signal EOF in a file. UUCP: crash!pnet01!pro-sol!mdavis ProLine: mdavis@pro-sol ARPA: crash!pnet01!pro-sol!mdavis@nosc.mil MCI Mail: 137-6036 INET: mdavis@pro-sol.cts.com ALPE|BIX: mdavis