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From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: How can I read keyboard without stopping
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Date: 8 Sep 88 14:41:12 GMT
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In article <8422@smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>If that's true, it's a bug.  EOF on a stream is not supposed to
>close the stream, merely set the EOF indicator.  In fact EOF
oh, great, another portability. Well, after you pointed this out
i realized it does vary a lot from machine to machine. I wrote 
a quicky to test it on SunOS 4.0 and it appears that the stream
gets closed for you. 
   I don't have the intestinal fortitude to test this out on our varied
machines. I *really* don't want to know ...
   So, Rule Number One: the definition and side-effects of eof 
are about as well-defined in stdio as they are in Pascal. arg.
ron