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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Text file conversion between UNIX and MSDOS
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Date: 11 Feb 89 20:53:12 GMT
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In article <20387@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> wales@CS.UCLA.EDU (Rich Wales) writes:
     UNIX text files *DO NOT* end in a ^D.  UNIX text files (unlike DOS
     text files) have *NO* special end-of-file character.

...And it's just as well;  a file ought to end where it ends, not
somewhere else.
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