Hello Darin!
In a message to Dennis Brown  Darin Mcbride wrote:
 DB> beginning chapter, they give an example of getchar().
 DB> int c=0,nc=0;
 DB> while((c=getchar()) != EOF)
 DB> {putchar(c);
 DB> ++nc;
 DB> }
 DB> printf("Total number of characters is %d\n",nc);
 DB> What character input from the keyboard represents the EOF character/key?
DM> That's platform-specific.  Worse, it can be set up by the user on some
DM> platforms.  In general, and by default (IIRC):
DM> DOS, Windows (Win32 console only), OS/2:  Ctrl-Z
DM> Unix: Ctrl-D
DM> On unix, you can usually set your system to use a different EOF character.
DM> However, I'm guessing DOS here... and I don't know of a way to change the
DM> EOF character on DOS.
DM> Also, this only applies in "ascii" or "text"
mode, not "binary" mode which
DM> doesn't have an EOF character.  Not to worry, however, since stdin, if not
DM> redirected from a file, is opened in text mode for you.
DM> Hope this helps,

Thanks, yes it does help.  I knew the Ctrl-Z was EOF in a text file, but
wasn't sure about the keyboard!
Thanks,
Dennis

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