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

 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. 

 RJT> I wouldn't doubt it...

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

 DB> I remember it from using a PDP-8 back in the early 70's. 
 DB> Not sure if it was an artifact of the OS or the editor used.

Funny you should mention that,  as I *have* a PDP-8,  and I'm not sure that
I'm gonna do much of anything with it...

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