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Re: End of file mark

From Tom Hardy <rhardy702@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: End of file mark
Date 2015-08-13 11:28 -0500
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Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> That wasn't WordStar, but CP/M itself; all programs worked that
> way.

I never used CPM, but I knew Wordstar very well, and DOS fairly 
well.  I used to run WS out of a script to set the current directory 
because WS was clueless about directories.

> Speaking of DOS copy, remember how it would refuse to copy a
> zero-length file?

I don't recall that one.

How about the BIOS text routine that would insert CR/LF to wrap 
lines that reached the end of the screen.  Not exceeded the end of 
the screen but reached it.  It effectively inserted a blank line 
after 80 character lines.  It affected all the command line tools 
and other programs that used the BIOS.

That one may still be around.

-- 
Tom Hardy <rhardy702@gmail.com>

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End of file mark T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-08-10 10:05 -0700
  Re: End of file mark John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2015-08-10 12:40 -0500
    Re: End of file mark Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-08-10 19:32 +0100
      Re: End of file mark Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-08-19 17:38 -0700
  Re: End of file mark The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-08-10 19:52 +0100
    Re: End of file mark Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-08-11 12:40 +0200
      Re: End of file mark The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-08-11 11:51 +0100
  Re: End of file mark Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-08-10 16:05 -0500
    Re: End of file mark Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-10 21:16 +0000
      Re: End of file mark Tom Hardy <rhardy702@gmail.com> - 2015-08-11 23:34 -0500
        Re: End of file mark Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-12 14:57 +0000
          Re: End of file mark Tom Hardy <rhardy702@gmail.com> - 2015-08-13 11:28 -0500
  Re: End of file mark T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-08-11 10:27 -0700

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