Re: [PLUG] EOF

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 10:52:21AM -0500, Philip McGraw wrote:
> I don't think the literal char code used in the file system
> for marking EOF is even relevant here.  On the compilers and
> systems I've checked, EOF gets #defined to be (-1) in stdio.h
> 
> This is merely the return code that getchar returns when it
> encounters an end of file condition and has nothing to do with
> how the file system determines where that end of file is.

Fair enough, but we are discussing two slightly different things.
^V^D is the way to match the ASCII code for EOF. EOF (or -1) is
the way to match getc(3)'s output.

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gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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