DW> Sometimes, I despair of PC-DOS! No sensible system would use CTL-Z
 DW> (CHR$(26)) or any other ASCII character to indicate EOF.   ...
Howdy David,
The author of CP/M had no intentions that it become an international 
operating system.  It was only to get some hobby folks started with their 
first computers. When Bill Gates stole a copy, arranged to hack up the first 
PC-DOS, and then MS-DOS the author of CP/M wouldn't have sold it since it 
wasn't finished.
There are still some identifiable CP/M bugs in MS-DOS 7.0.  Now we're stuck 
and nobody at MicroSoft knows how the guts of DOS works well enough to fix 
.
Chris
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