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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re:  Indicating end of file
Message-ID: <15014@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 10 Oct 90 01:03:06 GMT
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In article <ben.2920@epmooch.UUCP> ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) writes:
>>In article <14935@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
>>	There is no "end of file" character in amigados.
>[...]
>
>What is ctrl-\ then? Does it not indicate EOF to a stream that is connected
>to a console at least? (Yes, I realize that the character is not put as the
>last character in a file ala CP/M ctrl-Z).

	Yes, it is a special keystroke to the console-handler (CON:/RAW:).
It is not special to AmigaDos itself, and as you know, it's not put at the
end of a file (even if you send the output of a CON: window to a file).

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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