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Re: What was it layers were for again ?

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From:
Bart Schuller
Date:
November 28, 2000 09:28
Subject:
Re: What was it layers were for again ?
Message ID:
20001128182636.A15746@tanglefoot.lunatech.com
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:09:30PM +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> (One grumbling alligator - on Win32 "text mode" files not only do CRLF->'\n'
> but also treat ^Z as end-of-file - I have ignored ^Z so far - suggestions
> as to what the "right" thing to do would be wellcome.)

I'd love to hear from people/programs who actually use this "feature".
And wasn't it really DOS or even an ancestor of that that used it last?

Are there functions in the Win32 API that will write a ^Z in textmode?

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