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- From: phil@miracle.com (Phil Hill)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: The woes of ^Z
- Message-ID: <21Dec92200230@miracle.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 20:02:30 EDT
- Organization: Miracle Computer Consultants
- Lines: 35
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- >phil@miracle.com (Phil Hill) writes:
- >> Doesn't have anything to do with the filesystem. The DEFAULT mode to read
- >> a file is "TEXT" mode, in which case a ^Z is treated as EOF.
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- roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) writes:
- >That sure sounds like filesystem behavior to me.
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- You had better get out those beginning computer science books again. A file-
- system is how an operating system stores information on disk. It keeps track
- of filenames and their physical location on the hard disk. The filesystem
- doesn't care one bit what data is being stored.
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- Now, on the other hand... the DOS file access routines by default treat
- a ^Z as an EOF. This has nothing to do with the underlying filesystem.
- If you took the DOS access routines, and ran them on a UNIX, OS/2, MAC or
- *any* other filesystem, they would still be braindamaged.
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