Re: The infamous ^Z problem

CBFalconer <cbfalconer@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
Eigenvector wrote:

... snip ...

Actually `tr` absolutely doesn't work here, the ^Z is its death
(same with sed, batch VI, and a host of other shell related
commands), but I won't discuss that here. Besides I will at some
point need to port this to Windoze.

Then you should probably be using EOF. The Unix/Linux equivalent
of ^Z is ^D. Depends on where your input originates.

Eigenvector was talking about ^Z characters (ASCII 26) in a file.
Since he was opening the input file in binary mode, the character used
to signal an end-of-file on interactive input should be irrelevant.

I still don't know why he was having the problems he described, but
he's since solved them.

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