home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!alberta!adec23!mark
- From: mark@ve6mgs.ampr.org (Mark G. Salyzyn)
- Subject: Re: The woes of ^Z
- Organization: ADEC Systems Inc.
- Distribution: na
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 23:56:29 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.235629.21085@ve6mgs.ampr.org>
- References: <1PFyVB4w165w@vector0.SAC.CA.US> <50N6VB1w165w@freds.cojones.com>
- Lines: 17
-
- system@freds.cojones.com (George W. Hayduke) writes:
- >jon@vector0.SAC.CA.US (Dazed N. Confused) writes:
- >> ^Z. Waffle stopped at this point and read no further, even though
- >> the rest of the file was about 10k.
- >> bug bug bug bug bug bug
- >Yes, well, that's not Waffle's bug, that's part of the CP/M ancestry of
- >MS-DOS. Lucky us, lucky us.
- BS, they can talk to files `raw' under DOS if they want, this is the
- `default' behaviour of UNIX and many other operating systems. Someone
- just neglected to understand the default behavior of the compiler support
- library when they wrote Waffle. Don't feel comfortable, this IS A BUG in
- Waffle and has nothing to do with MS-DOS except that `text' mode is
- default behavior in their compiler that should have been otherwise!
-
- Toy software uses `text' mode for talking to files ...
-
- Ciao -- Mark Salyzyn mark@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca
-