Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 08:57:56 -0700
From: Bill Currie <bill AT taniwha DOT org>
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Subject: Re: EOF
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On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:27:10PM +0000, Chad R wrote:
> If you are asking about EOF in relation to quitting a simple program
> with a loop such as:
> 
>         while ((c = getchar()) != EOF)
> 
> you could try entering Ctrl-Z and then pressing ENTER on your keyboard.
> I don't know if this would be the same for all systems, but I think it
> should work under DOS.

Ctrl-D (normally, it can be changed) in *nix, and no enter: it's immediate (in
my experience).

Bill
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