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to: Auke Reitsma
from: Darin McBride
date: 1998-07-17 07:45:34
subject: EOF(2)

FT>> I've been trying my hand at Exercise 1-6 in K&R with VC4:

 FT>> int main(void)   /* verify that getchar() != EOF is 0 or 1  */
 AR> ...
 DM> Depending on your platform, either Ctrl-Z or Ctrl-D is your EOF
 DM> character... the former for DOS, Win32, OS/2, and the latter for
 DM> unix-variants.  (Warning: you can change the EOF character on
 DM> unix-variants, so it may be different...)

 AR> And the return value of getchar() and similar functions 
 AR> is not that ^Z or ^D ascii value anyway. AFAIK, IIRC, 
 AR> YMMV etc ;-)

The point was that he was typing the wrong character to get the EOF... :-)


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