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[Anders Johansson <ajh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 18 February 2008 00:06:22 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> I myself used this trick for my data files to be read by my programs in
> pascal (msdos). I wrote at the beginning of the file a small string
> describing the type of file and the program that used it, followed by the
> EOF char, and then the real binary data. When you run "type datafile" it
> printed that line(s) and stopped, without corrupting the screen.

Well, what do you know, DOS really did use a standard ascii character as EOF 
(ctrl-Z, ascii 26)

Well, all I can say is that it's not true for linux/unix, and it's yet another 
reason why dos sucked

Anders

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