Aucbvax.2399 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!saks@LL-XN Wed Jul 22 06:32:48 1981 fread and read from a terminal From: Joft Saks Spencer Thomas is quite right. See the 'TTY' entry in section 4 of the UNIX manual for a description of how the terminal handles EOT's. In particular, the manual says that the EOT signifies only the end of a given transmission (i.e., if the transmission does not end with a '\n'). End-of-file is actually indicated by reception of a zero-length transmission.