Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!ubc-cs!alberta!edson!news From: kurtk@dino (Kurt Klingbeil) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: minor problem with COPY command Message-ID: <1990Dec13.211612.8086@ee.ualberta.ca> Date: 13 Dec 90 21:16:12 GMT References: Sender: news@ee.ualberta.ca Organization: Univ. of Alberta Lines: 17 Originator: kurtk@bode.ee.ualberta.ca Everett Kaser Hewlett-Packard Company writes: > > The whole "ASCII file/^Z = EOF" thing is a bug, in my view. > All copying should be in binary mode. Editors should not append ^Zs > to files. Foo on the Norton Editor! Most certainly correct! As if it isn't stupid enough to have a two-character EOL (with every second editor handling lone CR's and LF's in arbitrary and nonsensical ways), a ^Z EOF is self-contradictory... and arguably even more stupid! The end of the file actually occurs AFTER the ^Z making the ^Z a JBEOF (just before). Then there are some systems which aren't satisfied with a single ^Z, but either deliberately pad the rest of the sector with them, or after each copy/edit operation add one more "End-Of-File", a form of audit trail... One (1) just has to shake one's head! <8-)