make, bash, or cygwin bug?

Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Sun Oct 31 19:54:00 GMT 1999


I'm looking for actual code which demonstrates a behavior under
VC++.

Can anyone supply this?

cgf

On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:54:31AM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
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>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 use of CTRL+Z is obsolete and should be ignored.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

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