David Bowerman wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 JdBP> I think it's about time that we let go of this CP/M nonsense.

 RJT> Agreed.  It was only put _in_ to CP/M in the first place because
 RJT> the CP/M directory structure does not store the exact size of a
 RJT> file.  It certainly doesn't have any place in a 32-bit OS...

 DB> The convention of using a ctrl-Z to denote EOF predates CP/M
 DB> by a fair chunk. 

I wouldn't doubt it...

Let's see,  I'll bet they used that in that RT-11 OS I played with back in '78 
or so,  do you think?  :-)

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