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From: darin@Apple.COM (Darin Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: EOF signaling
Keywords: EOF, keyboards
Message-ID: <8357@apple.Apple.Com>
Date: 15 Apr 88 21:43:14 GMT
References: <8671@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Reply-To: darin@apple.UUCP (Darin Adler)
Organization: Apple
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In article <8671@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU> mark@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Mark Nowacki) writes:
> How does onegenerate an EOF signal from the various types of Mac keyboards?

The keyboard on a Macintosh generates keyboard events, rather than acting
as a file, as terminals do on Unix. Thus, the question of which character
generates an EOF is dependent on the IO package you are talking about.

For example, MPW uses Command-Enter for EOF, Macintosh Pascal (the interpreted
product created by Think for Apple) uses the Enter key for EOF, and I use
Control-D for EOF when using a terminal program with our VAX.
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Darin Adler, Apple Computer                          AppleLink:Adler4
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