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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:20:33 -0500
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On 2014-07-08 11:08, Terry Reedy wrote:
> > Indeed.  Ctrl-D is _the_ canonical way to tell a program that's
> > reading stdin that your're done.  
> 
> Not on Windows.

Okay, EOF is the canonical way to tell a program reading stdin that
you're done.  It just happens that EOF ^D on *nix-likes and ^Z on
Win32. :-)

-tkc