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Re: Ctrl-Z
- To: root at jacob dot remcomp dot fr (root)
- Subject: Re: Ctrl-Z
- From: Geoffrey Noer <noer at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 00:27:56 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: mchase at ix dot netcom dot com, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
[...]
> Ctrl-Z IS NOT USED FOR MARKING THE END OF FILE SINCE MS-DOS 2.0!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Does gnu-win32 want to be compatible with DOS 1.0?
>
> The real problem behind this, and that is why it makes me mad, is that nobody
> at Cygnus is reading this bug reports, so the same unfixed bugs remain
[...]
Nope, I read them. :-)
Believe it or not, we have customers who have huge source bases where all
their files end in ^Zs. Even if we didn't have ^Z as EOF, people would
still run into the carriage return/line feed conversion part of the
text mode != binary mode picture whenever binary files are read in text
mode.
Hopefully adding binary flags to some of the utilities will help...
Cheers,
Geoffrey Noer
noer@cygnus.com
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