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From: shannon%datsun@Sun.COM (Bill Shannon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: stdio EOF
Message-ID: <68214@sun.uucp>
Date: 14 Sep 88 08:28:04 GMT
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In article <8459@smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> No; it was added because Bill Shannon thought it was a good idea.
> I noticed it because it broke several interesting applications.

What you didn't notice is that it fixed many programs that were
broken.  We weren't able to come up with a fix which maintained
compatibility with all programs which *happened* to work and with the
documentation, and which also fixed the programs that were broken.  If
you have such a fix and haven't already told us about it, please do so.