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Date: | Sun, 5 Jul 1998 16:29:24 +0300 (IDT) |
From: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
To: | Gili <sl AT psycode DOT com DOT NOSPAM> |
cc: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
Subject: | Re: C++ and RHIDE |
In-Reply-To: | <bWLoegW7sFse-pn2-Pb1R2teSpSCo@portX07.lanzen.net> |
Message-ID: | <Pine.SUN.3.91.980705162804.23984W-100000@is> |
MIME-Version: | 1.0 |
On 2 Jul 1998, Gili wrote: > Call me silly, but aren't editors suppose to stop reading in > textfiles at the EOF character? Isn't that the specification of some > standard? No, it's not a standard. It's a left-over from the ancient days of the CP/M operating system (which predates DOS). Somebody wanted to avoid accessing the file's directory entry (to know its size) when reading it.
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