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From: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: append " >> " is not working, why?
Message-ID: <6169@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 17 Sep 89 01:11:08 GMT
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In article <1675@bucket.UUCP> leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes:
}
}Text files have a ^Z at the end as an end-of-file marker. This is a 
}hangover from CP/M. Most editors assume that a ^Z is the end of the
		     ^^^^^^^^^^^^
}file. Thus your problem with the editor not seeing the second file

That's not my experience.  Qedit, Sprint, and PC-Write will merrily read any
Ctrl-Zs in the middle of the file without stopping, and BlackBeard 7.39 gave
you the option (when a Ctrl-Z is encountered in the middle of the file) of
truncating the file there or continuing to read the rest.  The fifth editor
I have any significant experience with (SpellBinder, copyright 1978/1982)
is the only one that ever used ^Z as an EOF marker, and it was crossassembled
from CP/M.... (besides, I haven't used it since very early 1986)


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