make, bash, or cygwin bug?

[Kai Henningsen]

On 22 Oct 99, at 13:49, Chris Faylor wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 03:07:53PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> >On 22 Oct 99, at 5:42, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >2. When handling a text file, *AND* the ^Z in question is the very
> >last byte of the file - except that even this case is very rare, and not
> >really worth the bother.
> >
> >In all other situations, a ^Z should not be associated with EOF.
> >(And ^D should only be associated with EOF in case 1.)
>
> If someone would like to verify how this works with MSVC we can change
> Cygwin to match.

Well, Microsoft says (KB ID: Q122268)

> MORE INFORMATION
> CTRL+Z is not used as the end-of-file character in Windows NT. This
> use of CTRL+Z is obsolete and should be ignored.

Attached: doc about how VC++ does fopen() (HTML, sorry) - I can't say how
accurate that is

Regards - Kai Henningsen

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