Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!cit-vax!tybalt.caltech.edu!sedwards From: sedwards@tybalt.caltech.edu (Stephen A. Edwards) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: console FST EOF Summary: ASCII confusion... Keywords: Apple IIGS GS/OS console FST EOF Message-ID: <11604@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Date: 15 Aug 89 17:12:21 GMT References: <10727@smoke.BRL.MIL> <3539@internal.Apple.COM> <10736@smoke.BRL.MIL> <3571@internal.Apple.COM> Sender: news@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu Reply-To: sedwards@tybalt.caltech.edu (Stephen A. Edwards) Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 14 Hmmm. A quick glance at a couple of ASCII charts showed that CTRL-Z is and is not the code for "end of file." According to two references (Apple IIgs hardware reference manual, Apple IIgs assembly language programming by Scanlon) CTRL-Z is "SUB" short for "Substitute." Another reference (Programming the 65816 by Eyes & Lichty, see a trend here?) said that it was "End of file." So who knows... Ctrl-C is definied as "End of Text." Ctrl-D, which Unix uses, is defined as "End of Trasmission." Ctrl-Y is "End of Medium" Ctrl-W is "End of Text Block," and Ctrl-\ is "File Separator." So, basically, you have a choice. Of course, we could simply use what the MCP in TRON used: End of Line.