Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 13:14:32 +0100 (MET) From: Olivier Perron <perron AT art DOT alcatel DOT fr> To: Charbel Sadaka <z2193115 AT student DOT unsw DOT edu DOT au> Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Hi In-Reply-To: <34E03363.1A28E21C@student.unsw.edu.au> Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980210131232.3556A-100000@rtbsci143s> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Charbel Sadaka wrote: [...] > no problems with it except that I've tried writing a simple program to > read from the stdin and count the number of characters in it using the > following code: > while (ch=getchar( ) != EOF) { > count++ > } > > The program compiles and all except at university we use unix and to > terminate the above > program ^D stands for EOF. The problem is I can't seem to do the same > in DOS since I can't find a similar command. If you how to solve this > problem I'd greatly appreciate it, [...] > Try ^Z instead of ^D -- Olivier Perron