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From: jeffdbREMOVETHIS AT netzone DOT com (Mikey)
Subject: Re: Ctrl-Z
8 Aug 1997 16:34:03 -0700 :
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Sadly Microsuck still uses ^Z in their SDK header files.

In fact they use it to "hide" information from some of their
own tools.

On Fri, 8 Aug 1997 20:12:08 +0200 (MET DST), you wrote:

>> 
>> Your filesystems are mounted in text mode by default by the initial
>> gnuwin32 installation.  That causes all files written by cat to have LF
>> changed to CRLF and stop short at the MSDOS EOF mark (Ctrl-Z).
>> 
>
>This is CRAZY. We have discussed this a thousand times in this list,
>in a span of several years:
>
>Ctrl-Z IS NOT USED FOR MARKING THE END OF FILE SINCE MS-DOS 2.0!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>Does gnu-win32 want to be compatible with DOS 1.0?
>
>The real problem behind this, and that is why it makes me mad, is that nobody
>at Cygnus is reading this bug reports, so the same unfixed bugs remain forever
>and people fall into them over and over again. 
>
>NOBODY uses Ctrl-Z to end a text file since AGES, at least 10 years or so.
>WAKE-UP GUYS!!!
>
>-- 
>Jacob Navia	Logiciels/Informatique
>41 rue Maurice Ravel			Tel 01 48.23.51.44
>93430 Villetaneuse 			Fax 01 48.23.95.39
>France
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         Mikey
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