From:	noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject:	Re: Ctrl-Z
9 Aug 1997 01:18:21 -0700 :
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[...]
> 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
[...]

Nope, I read them.  :-)

Believe it or not, we have customers who have huge source bases where all
their files end in ^Zs.  Even if we didn't have ^Z as EOF, people would
still run into the carriage return/line feed conversion part of the
text mode != binary mode picture whenever binary files are read in text
mode.

Hopefully adding binary flags to some of the utilities will help...

Cheers,

Geoffrey Noer
noer AT cygnus DOT com
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