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From: bkbarret@sactoh0.UUCP (Brent K. Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Text file conversion between UNIX and MSDOS
Summary: ^Z not really MSDOS
Message-ID: <691@sactoh0.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 89 20:10:47 GMT
References: <89Feb9.123853est.2662@godzilla.eecg.toronto.edu> <9717@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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In article <9717@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, arya@eros.Berkeley.EDU (Manish Arya) writes:
  - *CRUNCH* -
> Incidentally, UNIX terminates each line of an ASCII file with a line
> feed (10 decimal).  MSDOS, however, ends each line with a carriage
> return (13 decimal) and line feed.  UNIX ends files with ^D (4
> decimal) while MSDOS uses ^Z (26 decimal).

 More accurately, MSDOS optionally uses ^Z to end a file. That's
something it kept from CP/M to maintain compatibility. MSDOS text
files do not need to be ^Z terminated.

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