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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Signals and dbx
Message-ID: <15091@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 5 Feb 91 20:45:18 GMT
References: <6992@alpha.cam.nist.gov>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <6992@alpha.cam.nist.gov> coleman@cam.nist.gov (Sean Sheridan Coleman X5672) writes:
>Does ^D produce a signal ?

Not under normal circumstances.  Usually that character is used to
delimit chunks of input text; whatever has been typed (in canonicalizing
mode) up to the so-called EOF character is made available for reading
and the EOF character is discarded.  No signal is involved.