Re: EOF location?


Slightly Clever Monkey wrote:

I'm no longer sure what I've supposed to have claimed.

The messages are on Google and elsewhere and will be forever. You could
easily go back and check what you did claim and where it was pointed
out to be misinformation. You now seem to want to disassociate
yourself from that with flannel such as: "supposed to have".

It is, as far as I know, quite accurate and clear.

You got one sentence right and the rest was nonsense and
misinformation.

"""The EOF/EOT marker is "present", but is
usually used up by API calls that scan for it while retrieving the
contents of a file."""

A-ha! I now know what you are taking so much umbrage with! All that
essentially unrelated stuff about POSIX and showing your work leads us
to this. I can't recall if you actually quoted this previously and it
got lost in the noise.

It is easy to check that I had quoted this previously, just look back
in the thread about 4 messages. Previously, my corrections of your
misinformed claims had gotten a denial 'Not true', and showed that you
didn't understand the correction.

Yes, this was an untrue statement. I was conflating the notion of
"end-of-file" as referenced in various APIs with the EOF character on a
specific platform. I assumed such characters were still necessary on
Win32. My misunderstanding was compounded by having to work on code
(not ours!) that stopped because it reached an EOF char in a file, and
decided it was time to stop.

Thank you for finally agreeing, now that you have done your homework,
with what you have been disputing for days.

.

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