Re: write error

Nobody wrote:
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:06:57 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:


The most confusing thing about the concept of an EOF condition is that
there's no such thing. EOF is a macro. End-of-file is a condition.


"EOF" doesn't only refer to the C macro with that name. It can just be an
abbreviation for "end of file".

"eof" would be a zillion times better.

--
pete
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